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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what do the Indians have an inevitable feeling?
(a) A government official with the power to shut them down and evict them for good.
(b) The locals will destroy their store.
(c) Their lawyers will cheat them out of their money.
(d) Mehring will have them closed down.

2. What is a sign that winter is weakening?
(a) Birds are chirping.
(b) There is a warm wind some afternoons.
(c) The river is no longer frozen.
(d) Mehring no longer needs his winter coat.

3. When they land at Johannesburg, after some polite conversation, what does the young girl do?
(a) Screams out and runs to her mother.
(b) She joins her family.
(c) She asks his name.
(d) She asks for his phone number.

4. What does Jacobus reassure the men who do not have proper work papers?
(a) He will protect them.
(b) They will not be caught.
(c) He can help them work in town.
(d) He will get work papers for them.

5. When Mehring roams his four-hundred-acre property, where does he always end up?
(a) Back at his farmhouse.
(b) At the spare farmhouse.
(c) At the third pasture, where the reeds are.
(d) In the barn.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why must Bismillah keep alert?

2. What does Jacobus pass out at the meeting with several laborers?

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

4. What will Terry be missing by staying in the United States with his mother?

5. What protects the Indians' fortified enclosure?

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