View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Antonia shocked to learn about Mehring?
(a) He has a nearly grown son, and his wife left him and moved to New York.
(b) He has a wife and small child in Johannesburg.
(c) He killed the man that was found by the river.
(d) He owns a farm, while working as a businessman.

2. About what is Mehring concerned?
(a) His farm.
(b) Jacobus' innocense.
(c) Both the incident and the frost.
(d) His safety.

3. Why is Mehring not able to use the river as a water source?
(a) It is dirty.
(b) It is too low.
(c) It does not belong to him.
(d) It is contaminated.

4. Why does Mehring think the body was probably dumped there?
(a) The dead man has no mud on his shoes.
(b) He does not know the man.
(c) There were marks showing it had been dragged.
(d) It's a quiet place that no one would notice.

5. Where does Jacobus tell Mehring they found a dead man?
(a) Near a mine.
(b) In his home.
(c) Near the river.
(d) In a field.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mehring have the farm?

2. How is Solomon when Jacobus finds him?

3. Where does Mehring lie down and fall asleep?

4. How do the police handle problems in the shantytowns?

5. Why is Mehring furious that the police borrowed a shovel from Jacobus?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 310 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample