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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Antonia's husband?
(a) Away on research.
(b) In town.
(c) In the United States.
(d) Dead.

2. How is Mehring's relationship with his girlfriend?
(a) A loving relationship.
(b) A comfortable relationship.
(c) A "love / hate" relationship.
(d) A trusting relationship.

3. How does Mehring reach the police?
(a) On the party line telephone.
(b) Sends Jacobus to tell them.
(c) On a walkie-talkie.
(d) Sends them a telegraph.

4. What do the bad spirits haunt?
(a) The third pasture where Solomon was found.
(b) Jacobus' home.
(c) Mehring's house.
(d) The town.

5. What does Mehring worry about as he looks out the windows?
(a) How he will pay for repairs on his farm.
(b) The burned willows.
(c) Whether or not the fire will stop on its own.
(d) When Antonia will return.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Antonia say wistfully to Mehring?

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

4. What do Mehring, Jacobus and a farmhand try and repair?

5. What does Mehring do when he returns to the farmhouse?

(see the answer key)

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