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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Mehring get his leg stuck?
(a) In the fence.
(b) Through a broken floor board.
(c) In a car door.
(d) In the third pasture mud.

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

3. Who does Jacobus call as the men look on skeptically and somewhat fearfully?
(a) Backup.
(b) William at the Indian Store.
(c) Mehring at the farm.
(d) The police.

4. Why does Bismillah pace the outside perimeter of the compound?
(a) To look for Solomon.
(b) To check for any holes.
(c) To turn on the security camera.
(d) To check for thieves.

5. Where is Antonia's husband?
(a) Away on research.
(b) Dead.
(c) In the United States.
(d) In town.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Jacobus reassure the men who do not have proper work papers?

3. Why is Jacobus angry when one of the laborer youths, Izak, comes back from the nearby shantytown?

4. Where is Jacobus' meeting being held?

5. What is the symbol Jalal is painting?

(see the answer key)

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