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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long has there been a drought?
(a) One year.
(b) Four years.
(c) Six years.
(d) Eight years.

2. Who does Mehring think about when his guests leave?
(a) His girlfriend.
(b) His sixteen-year-old son.
(c) His home.
(d) The corpse on his property.

3. What do the farmhands do, regarding Solomon?
(a) Go after the men who hurt Solomon.
(b) Try to find Solomon.
(c) Bury Solomon.
(d) Try to piece together what happened to Solomon.

4. Where is Mehring's son, Terry?
(a) On the farm with Mehring.
(b) In Johannesburg with his mother.
(c) In the United States with his mother.
(d) Away at college.

5. 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 is too young to be at the meeting and should have stayed at the shantytown.
(d) He was sent to buy beer, which Jacobus feels is unsafe for a young man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mehring make himself at the farmhouse?

2. About what is Mehring concerned?

3. Besides passing through the city, what else must Mehring drive through to get to his property?

4. Who leads the conversation?

5. What do the bad spirits haunt?

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