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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Jacobus angry when one of the laborer youths, Izak, comes back from the nearby shantytown?
(a) He is too young to be at the meeting and should have stayed at the shantytown.
(b) He was sent to buy beer, which Jacobus feels is unsafe for a young man.
(c) He could have been followed from the shantytown by the police, which would have caused trouble for the other men at the meeting.
(d) Izak is sent to buy supplies but comes back empty-handed.

2. To what does Mehring compare getting his leg stuck, pulling to get it out, and then it just coming free?
(a) His relationship with Antonia.
(b) Someone holding his leg and just letting him go.
(c) God having a hold on him.
(d) His son's struggle to leave South Africa.

3. What does Terry not seem to realize about the South African "system" he mocks?
(a) It is not as flawed as he believes it to be.
(b) Terry's father works for that system.
(c) It is the same one that pays for him and his mother's lifestyle.
(d) It is the best system on the continent of Africa.

4. Describe Terry's personality.
(a) Unsure.
(b) Kind.
(c) Shy.
(d) Spoiled.

5. Why is Mehring upset with Terry?
(a) Terry moved to the United States.
(b) Terry will not take over the farm.
(c) Terry will no longer be near him.
(d) Terry does not have the nerve to tell him in person that he is staying in the United States.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mehring ride in tourist class on a plane ride from Lisbon?

2. What are Jacobus and Solomon planting in the field?

3. What do the Indians allow black laborers to do?

4. Why does Mehring tear up the letter from his son?

5. What protects the Indians' fortified enclosure?

(see the answer key)

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