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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why is Mehring upset with Terry?
(a) Terry will not take over the farm.
(b) Terry does not have the nerve to tell him in person that he is staying in the United States.
(c) Terry will no longer be near him.
(d) Terry moved to the United States.

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

4. What does Terry not seem to realize about the South African "system" he mocks?
(a) It is the same one that pays for him and his mother's lifestyle.
(b) It is the best system on the continent of Africa.
(c) Terry's father works for that system.
(d) It is not as flawed as he believes it to be.

5. Why is Mehring easily able to make the issue with the young girl disappear?
(a) She did not complain.
(b) The girl's family are immigrants and do not want trouble.
(c) The girl's family is of a lower social class and therefore powerless.
(d) He is innocent.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mehring notice about awakening on the farm?

2. What do the farmhands do, regarding Solomon?

3. With whom does Mehring walk through the property?

4. What does Mehring despair about in the spare farmhouse?

5. When they land at Johannesburg, after some polite conversation, what does the young girl do?

(see the answer key)

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