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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. How does Antonia contradict her "everything goes" front?
(a) Her shy personality.
(b) Her sensible advice.
(c) Her closed way of talking.
(d) Her conservative clothing.

3. What does Solomon find at the celebration?
(a) The beer.
(b) His boss.
(c) The goat that was being used at the feast.
(d) His friends.

4. What blows garbage from the camps and industrial sites into the air?
(a) Large fans.
(b) August winds.
(c) Ocean winds.
(d) An east wind.

5. About what is Mehring concerned?
(a) Jacobus' innocense.
(b) His safety.
(c) Both the incident and the frost.
(d) His farm.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what do they speak?

2. How many generations of his unexpected visitors are present?

3. What does Antonia say wistfully to Mehring?

4. Why does Mehring no longer have much to do with pig iron?

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

(see the answer key)

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