Characters 1
Makes matters worse by going back to work.
Jurgis
Which character disappears, deserting the family, as spring comes?
Jonas
What does a smoked sausage allegedly do to Kristoforas?
Kills him.
What Jurgis has to do to Stanislovas each day in the winter, and why
Beat him (with a stick) to get him to go to work
Vilimas and Nikalojus learn to sell this item
Newspapers
When Ona ___, Jurgis cannot stay angry.
cries
The amount left in Ona's bank account by the end of March.
Three dollars
Jurgis has to lie quiet for this long or risk permanent disability.
Two months
Has the first joints of three fingers permanently disabled.
Stanislovas
Which of Teta Elzbieta's children died?
Kristoforas
This was twisted out of place in Jurgis.
Tendon
The packinghouse workers talk about this in "awe-stricken whispers."
The fertilizer plant
Had kept Jurgis's place at Brown's the first time he was out.
The boss/foreman
These four characters never make it to work one day because of a snowstorm.
Jonas, Ona, Marija, Stanislovas
Why Ona isn't fired for not making it to work.
The forelady herself couldn't make it in.
Jurgis is described as looking like a homeless ____ while he is injured and out of work, recovering.
ghost
What part of the Packinghouse business does Jurgis end up working in after being out of work for months?
The fertilizer plant
Finally gets a job, in the sausage-making factory
Elzbieta
What is Sinclair trying to illustrate with the story about the Chicago billionaire and great European surgeon?
The rich can obtain much better health care than the poor.
Why the fertilizer men are doomed to die within a certain, definite time
They breathe in the bone dust