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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Mehring's friends feel about his peaceful life?
(a) They think nothing of it, for they have their own peaceful lives.
(b) They marvel at it.
(c) They find it boring.
(d) They love to visit him and be a part of his peaceful life.

2. What else does he note about the corpse?
(a) It is female.
(b) It looks old.
(c) It has old, dirty clothing.
(d) It has fairly nice clothes.

3. Why does Antonia taunt Mehring?
(a) He works in the city as a pig-iron dealer.
(b) He annoys her.
(c) He is a socialist, while she is a capitalist.
(d) She enjoys making others feel inferior.

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

5. Who has not been seen for several days?
(a) Solomon's mother.
(b) Solomon's brother.
(c) Jacobus.
(d) Mehring.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Mehring not a true farmer?

2. What do the farmhands do, regarding Solomon?

3. How does Mehring feel as he takes in the scene: river, reeds and willows?

4. From whom does he receive an unexpected phone call and visit?

5. What does Terry not seem to realize about the South African "system" he mocks?

(see the answer key)

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