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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why is Jacobus angry when one of the laborer youths, Izak, comes back from the nearby shantytown?
(a) He was sent to buy beer, which Jacobus feels is unsafe for a young man.
(b) He could have been followed from the shantytown by the police, which would have caused trouble for the other men at the meeting.
(c) Izak is sent to buy supplies but comes back empty-handed.
(d) He is too young to be at the meeting and should have stayed at the shantytown.

4. Mehring realizes that the house is wasted, but what is the true value?
(a) His life.
(b) The land itself.
(c) The lives of his farmhands.
(d) His animals.

5. To what "business" does Mehring try to go back?
(a) Farming his land.
(b) Stopping some boys from taking native hen's eggs.
(c) Chasing ferrel dogs off his property.
(d) Training horses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Antonia say wistfully to Mehring?

2. Why does Mehring think the body was probably dumped there?

3. Where does Jacobus find Solomon?

4. What does Mehring make himself at the farmhouse?

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

(see the answer key)

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