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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How do Mehring's business peers feel out his "hobby" farm?
(a) They are disgusted.
(b) They find it ridiculous.
(c) They are embarrassed.
(d) They feel envious.

3. Why are several of the Indians at the store worried?
(a) The police will uncover the fact that they are in the country illegally.
(b) The police will charge them with murder because they are part of an ethnic minority.
(c) The police will raid their store to find clues to the murder.
(d) They fear the murderer will return.

4. Why does Mehring become annoyed with the police?
(a) They refuse to visit the scene until the next day.
(b) They refuse to leave his property.
(c) They want him to send the body to them.
(d) They think he is a suspect.

5. How does Mehring feel about the policeman's reassurances that it will not reflect badly on him?
(a) He is confident.
(b) He is very worried.
(c) He is somewhat assuaged.
(d) He is unconcerned.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mehring feel when he wakes up?

2. Where does Jacobus tell Mehring they found a dead man?

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

4. Who leads the conversation?

5. How long has there been a drought?

(see the answer key)

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