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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What aspect of the farm does Mehring like?
(a) It is secluded and has no pesky witnesses.
(b) The fields.
(c) The hired help.
(d) The animals and plants.

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

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

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) Terry's father works for that system.
(c) It is the best system on the continent of Africa.
(d) It is not as flawed as he believes it to be.

5. Who is Antonia?
(a) Mehring's mother.
(b) Mehring's sister.
(c) Mehring's best friend.
(d) Mehring's leftist, anti-capitalist girlfriend.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What blows garbage from the camps and industrial sites into the air?

3. On first glance, what does Jacobus think about Solomon?

4. What makes the dust-filled air worse?

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

(see the answer key)

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