Characters
The farm hand that picked Jim up at the train station.
Who is Jake?
(Jake Marpole)
Death bed confession
What is throwing the bride and groom off the sled and to the wolves?
Where Jim feels, "...entirely happy."
"At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep."
What is his grandmother's garden?
Who is Krajiek
The fellow Bohemian who helps the Shimerda family navigate Nebraska - language and housing ?
The bells of the monastery.
The sound that greets Pavel and Peter when they reenter the village after throwing the couple off the sled.
What Mr. Shimerda asks of Jim.
What is "Te-e-ach, te-e-ach my Antonia!"
The fictional family book about a family that Jim reads aloud to his grandmother - He believes his life in Nebraska is more adventurous
Who is the Swiss Family Robinsob?
What gives Jim "street cred" with Antonia and makes him feel less of a little boy.
What is killing the snake?
The name of the creature that has a "town" named after it.
What is Prairie dog town.
What the two Russian, Peter and Pavel, like to eat.
What are melons?
Antonia's nostalgic tears.
What is the cricket that sings like Old Hata?
The respective ages of Jim and Antonia.
What are ten and 14?
"His abominable muscularity, his loathsome, fluid motion, somehow made me sick."
What is the snake that Jim kills?
The Mormon trail.
What are sunflowers that line the "roads to freedom"
The person to whom Jim is speaking in the Introduction. (The person he meets on the train)
We don't know?