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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Mehring feel when he wakes up?
(a) Momentarily confused,
(b) Sick.
(c) Wide awake.
(d) Tired.

2. Why does Mehring become annoyed with the police?
(a) They want him to send the body to them.
(b) They refuse to leave his property.
(c) They refuse to visit the scene until the next day.
(d) They think he is a suspect.

3. When Mehring roams his four-hundred-acre property, where does he always end up?
(a) In the barn.
(b) At the third pasture, where the reeds are.
(c) Back at his farmhouse.
(d) At the spare farmhouse.

4. Why are several of the Indians at the store worried?
(a) They fear the murderer will return.
(b) The police will uncover the fact that they are in the country illegally.
(c) The police will charge them with murder because they are part of an ethnic minority.
(d) The police will raid their store to find clues to the murder.

5. How might the owners of the Indian Store lose all they have worked for?
(a) Mehring cheats them of their money and prevents locals to purchase goods.
(b) Theft by the locals and confiscation or eviction by the government.
(c) A river flood in the spring.
(d) The De Beer fire that spread throughout the county.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mehring go back to the farmhouse?

2. How do Mehring's business peers feel out his "hobby" farm?

3. Who does Jacobus call as the men look on skeptically and somewhat fearfully?

4. What does Mehring despair about in the spare farmhouse?

5. What does Mehring take as he walks across the compound?

(see the answer key)

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