Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" Trivia Quiz

Answer: Jonas

Jonas hears of a Lithuanian man who struck it rich in America, and, after the failure of Ona's familiy's farm, he suggests that the family travel to America.

Answer: Delicatessen

Jokubas runs a financial failure of a delicatessen. He is the man who allegedly "made a fortune" in America. He becomes a friend of the family.

Answer: Gutshoveling on the killing beds

Jurgis is immediately spotted apart from the crowd by the bosses due to his size and strong build. He is offered a job gutshoveling on the killing beds. Later on, after losing his place due to injury, he is hired in the fertilizer plant and even further on when he breaks the Beef Strike he works at hog trimming, but he never works as a beef trimmer (although Marija does).

Answer: Teta Elzbieta

Poor Elzbieta frets and worries as she hands over the family's hard earned money to the agent and signs the papers for the house.

Answer: Wedding feast

The "veselija" is the traditional Lithuanian wedding feast, in which the entire family participates in food, drinking, and dancing. Jurgis and Ona's "veselija" is described in the first chapter.

Answer: False

The first member of the family to die is not Kristoforas, but Dede Antanas. Antanas, an old man, is heavily overworked in mopping up the chemicals in the pickling plants. Exhaustion combined with infections and sores from chemicals kills him. Kristoforas is the second to die later in the novel from eating diseased meat.

Answer: Marija

Tamoszius and Marija fall in love early on in the novel, although they cannot marry due to financial difficulties. Unfortunately, the two's love never culminates because Marija, deeply impoverished, is forced into prostitution and Tamoszius loses a finger and is no longer able to play the violin, consequently leading to his departure from Chicago.

Answer: The sausage room

Elzbieta gets a job in the sausage room, where several fine ingredients, such as meat that has been rejected from Europe; poisoned rats; and meat that has been on the floor, are blended into fine Packingtown products.

Answer: Antanas

Jurgis and Ona name their son Antanas after his dearly departed grandfather.

Answer: She was being forced to sleep with Connor

On two (possibly more) occasions, Ona is forced to sleep with the stockyard foreman Connor, who had threatened the entire family's jobs if she did not submit. Consequently, she is not able to return home, much to the worry of Jurgis. Finally, she confesses the truth about her circumstances. Jurgis savagely attacks Connor and is consequently thrown in jail.

Answer: Stanislovas

Stanislovas visits Jurgis and tells him about the family's plight. Desperate for money, he begs Jurgis to give all he has. Jurgis hands over what is left of all his wages: fourteen cents.

Answer: It has been repossessed

Jrugis finds a new family is in his house. Turns out that the family could not afford to pay the rent on the house after they became unemployed, and they consequently moved to Aniele's.

Answer: Childbirth complications

Ona goes into labor three months prematurely, and several complications arise. A stubborn midwife arrives too late and Ona dies, along with the baby.

Answer: Antanas

Elzbieta reminds Jurgis of his duty to his son, and Jurgis goes back to work and manages to move on with his life for a brief time for the sake of Antanas.

Answer: Antanas died

Jurgis comes home one day to find that Antanas has fallen into one of the deep puddles caused by the Chicago rains and drowned. He then sponteneously strikes off on his own, hopping on a freight train and "hoboing it" in the country.

Answer: Mike Scully

Scully is a boss of the bosses in Packingtown and manipulates every election to his own financial pleasure.

Answer: Jones

Master Freddie, a drunk young lad who gives Jurgis shelter and a 100 dollar bill, is related to Jones, owner of Jones's Factory.

Answer: 3 dollars a day

Jurgis becomes a "scab" during the Beef Strike at the packing plants and demands that he be given a salary of three dollars a day for his work. He later finds out that most people had asked for and received up to five dollars a day.

Answer: Alena Jasaityte

Jurgis meets Alena, a woman he recognizes from his first year in Packingtown, by chance on the street. Jurgis is now once again poor and desperate, and Alena tells Jurgis to go to Marija, and she will be able to help.

Answer: Morphine

Due to Marija's life in the brothel, she seems to take more and more morphine every day. After converting to Socialism, Jurgis tries to get her to quit the brothel and get off the morphine, but Marija, embittered and indifferent, says she never will.

Answer: Polly Simpson

Polly Simpson is the headmistress of the brothel that employs Marija. Whenever there is trouble with the police, Simpson always worms her way out of it.

Answer: True

Poor Stanislovas had gotten a job bringing beer to the men who worked in a warehouse. Stanislovas would drink out of their cans, and one day drank too much, got drunk, fell asleep in the warehouse, was locked in overnight, and was eaten alive by rats.

Answer: Ostrinski

Jurgis is in a daze after listening to the Socialist orator, and asks the speaker how he can learn more about it. Because he speaks Lithuanian, Ostrinski is recommended. Ostrinski spends the whole night long teaching Jurgis about Socialism and the evils of capitalism.

Answer: The Roman Catholic Church

Schliemann describes a final battle between Socialists and the Church and uses the metaphorical colors red (to represent Socialism) and black (to represent the Church).

Answer: The Pure Food and Drug Act

As a direct result of the gruesome descriptions of the meatpacking industry, Congress passed the Pure Food and Drug Act, leading to imroved conditions in such factories. Ironically, this was not Sinclair's intention at all. He aimed to draw attention to Socialism and end of oppression of the proletariat, but, as he said, "I aimed for the public's heart and instead hit the stomach."