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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Antonia shocked to learn about Mehring?
(a) He killed the man that was found by the river.
(b) He owns a farm, while working as a businessman.
(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.

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

3. Who does Mehring think about when his guests leave?
(a) The corpse on his property.
(b) His girlfriend.
(c) His home.
(d) His sixteen-year-old son.

4. How do Mehring's business peers feel out his "hobby" farm?
(a) They find it ridiculous.
(b) They feel envious.
(c) They are disgusted.
(d) They are embarrassed.

5. About what do they speak?
(a) The dead body on his property.
(b) Business and the history of the land.
(c) Business in town.
(d) The farm.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mehring feel when he wakes up?

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

3. Who does Mehring hear in the other room as he is resting?

4. Why is Jacobus angry when one of the laborer youths, Izak, comes back from the nearby shantytown?

5. Where is Jacobus' meeting being held?

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