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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Solomon do after he questions the men?
(a) He goes to the police to let them know about the suspicious men.
(b) He ignores them and goes back to sleep.
(c) He reluctantly rises from bed and follows them out into the night.
(d) He runs away from the men.

2. What does Mehring think he should do but know he will not do?
(a) Call his son.
(b) Sell the farm.
(c) Clean up from the fire.
(d) Write a letter.

3. About what do they speak?
(a) The dead body on his property.
(b) Business in town.
(c) Business and the history of the land.
(d) The farm.

4. To what "business" does Mehring try to go back?
(a) Chasing ferrel dogs off his property.
(b) Training horses.
(c) Farming his land.
(d) Stopping some boys from taking native hen's eggs.

5. What does a fire that starts on De Beer's property also burn?
(a) The shantytown.
(b) Part of the town.
(c) Sections of Mehring's farm.
(d) Mehring's farmhouse.

6. What is Antonia shocked to learn about Mehring?
(a) He owns a farm, while working as a businessman.
(b) He killed the man that was found by the river.
(c) He has a wife and small child in Johannesburg.
(d) He has a nearly grown son, and his wife left him and moved to New York.

7. How does Mehring's farm look?
(a) Dusty.
(b) Burnt.
(c) Fresh.
(d) Lush.

8. How does Jacobus recommend Mehring attempt to preserve the body?
(a) Put the remains in the large freezer in the barn.
(b) Cover the remains and make sure to keep any stray dogs away.
(c) Call a taxidermist to preserve the remains.
(d) Lay the remains in the cellar.

9. What does Mehring do when he returns to the farmhouse?
(a) He talks to Jacobus.
(b) He takes a nap.
(c) He cooks dinner.
(d) He takes a shower.

10. What do Mehring, Jacobus and a farmhand try and repair?
(a) A fence for the cattle.
(b) A water pump for the cattle.
(c) A tractor.
(d) The roof on the house.

11. What does Mehring worry about as he looks out the windows?
(a) When Antonia will return.
(b) The burned willows.
(c) How he will pay for repairs on his farm.
(d) Whether or not the fire will stop on its own.

12. Why does Mehring buy the farm?
(a) It is a relaxing oasis from the business world in which he works.
(b) He thinks it would make a great place to bring a woman.
(c) His family loves to visit him at the farm.
(d) He enjoys farming and being in nature.

13. What do the bad spirits haunt?
(a) Jacobus' home.
(b) The third pasture where Solomon was found.
(c) Mehring's house.
(d) The town.

14. How is Solomon when Jacobus finds him?
(a) He is beaten badly and stripped naked.
(b) He is dead.
(c) He is asleep.
(d) He has a broken leg.

15. Why is Mehring furious that the police borrowed a shovel from Jacobus?
(a) It is dirty.
(b) It is now bent.
(c) To bury the body at the site.
(d) He cannot find it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Jacobus tell Mehring they found a dead man?

2. From whom does he receive an unexpected phone call and visit?

3. Who speaks of bad spirits?

4. Who does Mehring think about as he walks?

5. Why is Mehring not able to use the river as a water source?

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