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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Jacobus angry when one of the laborer youths, Izak, comes back from the nearby shantytown?
(a) Izak is sent to buy supplies but comes back empty-handed.
(b) He could have been followed from the shantytown by the police, which would have caused trouble for the other men at the meeting.
(c) He was sent to buy beer, which Jacobus feels is unsafe for a young man.
(d) He is too young to be at the meeting and should have stayed at the shantytown.

2. What does Mehring make himself at the farmhouse?
(a) Some lunch.
(b) A hammock.
(c) A scrapbook.
(d) New furniture.

3. Why does Mehring tear up the letter from his son?
(a) His son's hypocrisy disgusts him.
(b) He knows that the boy is not his son.
(c) He and his son do not get along.
(d) He is upset that his son is so far away.

4. Why does Antonia taunt Mehring?
(a) He is a socialist, while she is a capitalist.
(b) He works in the city as a pig-iron dealer.
(c) He annoys her.
(d) She enjoys making others feel inferior.

5. What does Mehring own?
(a) A zoo in Cambodia.
(b) A large home in the city.
(c) An automobile dealership in Australia.
(d) A farm in rural South Africa.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what do they speak?

2. Where do they take Solomon?

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

4. Why do people dig through piles of garbage?

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

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