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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Antonia not believe about Mehring?
(a) He has a wife.
(b) The farm belongs to him.
(c) He has a son.
(d) His mail is confidential.

2. What makes the dust-filled air worse?
(a) Smoking.
(b) Tornadoes.
(c) Passing cars.
(d) Pollution from oil refineries.

3. Who does Mehring think about as he walks?
(a) A particular woman.
(b) What jobs he needs to get done.
(c) What he will plant in the fall.
(d) Where he will find water for his farm.

4. What does Solomon do after he questions the men?
(a) He reluctantly rises from bed and follows them out into the night.
(b) He ignores them and goes back to sleep.
(c) He runs away from the men.
(d) He goes to the police to let them know about the suspicious men.

5. What else does Mehring worry about when he looks out the windows?
(a) When Antonia will return.
(b) The safety of his farmhands.
(c) The possible loss of the water birds.
(d) The loss of his cattle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes Mehring's irrigation efforts almost useless?

2. Why does Mehring not need water?

3. Where does Mehring do after returning from his trip?

4. What blows garbage from the camps and industrial sites into the air?

5. How does Mehring's farm look?

(see the answer key)

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