Chapter 16

Quiz for Document 16-3: Antanas Kaztauskis, Life Story of a Lithuanian (c. 1906)

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Question 1

According to Kaztauskis’s Life Story of a Lithuanian, the American Federation of Labor influenced his life in which of the following ways?A. The union impoverished him by charging excessive dues and encouraging unnecessary strikes.
B. The union damaged his standing in the workplace by publicizing his role as a union organizer.
C. The union aided in his cultural assimilation and helped him achieve a higher standard of living.
D. The union achieved reforms that protected his job, even though he worked slowly.

Question 2

Which of the following statements best describes Kaztauskis’s experience with the local Republican Party?A. Kaztauskis was part of a Republican Party political machine.
B. Party officials were weak and ineffectual.
C. Politics played a limited role in local affairs.
D. The Republican Party shunned immigrants with Catholic backgrounds.

Question 3

According to Kaztauskis, the factory employers liked to hire from among the thousands of Lithuanian immigrants suddenly coming into the country because the Lithuanians wereA. able to work long difficult hours.
B. highly skilled industrial workers.
C. more educated than other Eastern European workers.
D. willing to work for less money.

Question 4

What, in Kaztauskis’s telling, was the direct consequence of the suppression of wages among the newly hired Lithuanian workers and the firing of Irish, German, and Polish workers?A. Bohemians and Poles attacked Lithuanian neighborhoods and cultural centers.
B. Eastern Europeans and Western Europeans formed rival violent gangs.
C. Labor officials organized Lithuanian workers as they had other immigrant groups.
D. Revolutionary leaders called for labor to unite against capital.