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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 was sent to buy beer, which Jacobus feels is unsafe for a young man.
(b) He is too young to be at the meeting and should have stayed at the shantytown.
(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. Why does Antonia taunt Mehring?
(a) He annoys her.
(b) He is a socialist, while she is a capitalist.
(c) She enjoys making others feel inferior.
(d) He works in the city as a pig-iron dealer.

3. What does Terry not seem to realize about the South African "system" he mocks?
(a) Terry's father works for that system.
(b) It is not as flawed as he believes it to be.
(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. What does Mehring make himself at the farmhouse?
(a) A hammock.
(b) New furniture.
(c) Some lunch.
(d) A scrapbook.

5. How does Mehring feel as he takes in the scene: river, reeds and willows?
(a) Peaceful.
(b) Anxious.
(c) Bored.
(d) Unsure.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does Jacobus call as the men look on skeptically and somewhat fearfully?

3. When Mehring roams his four-hundred-acre property, where does he always end up?

4. What does Mehring find in Terry's backpack?

5. In what car do Mehring and his son ride?

(see the answer key)

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