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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Solomon think about, along with dying in the pasture?
(a) Existing with the other dead man who was buried there and never properly laid to rest.
(b) His brother's fate.
(c) How the other man found by the river had died.
(d) The men who beat him and left him for dead.

3. With what is Mehring charged, regarding the young girl on the plane?
(a) "Sexual assault."
(b) "Sexual harassment."
(c) "Interfering."
(d) "Child abuse."

4. Who does Mehring think of as he rests on the couch?
(a) His wife.
(b) Solomon and his brother.
(c) The De Beers.
(d) Antonia and Terry.

5. Why is Mehring not able to use the river as a water source?
(a) It does not belong to him.
(b) It is contaminated.
(c) It is dirty.
(d) It is too low.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who leads the conversation?

2. Why does Mehring no longer have much to do with pig iron?

3. Why are several of the Indians at the store worried?

4. Why does Mehring ride in tourist class on a plane ride from Lisbon?

5. Why is Mehring easily able to make the issue with the young girl disappear?

(see the answer key)

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