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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Jalal painting?
(a) The windmill and water tank.
(b) The Indian Store.
(c) His car.
(d) Mehring's home.

2. What do the farmhands do, regarding Solomon?
(a) Try to find Solomon.
(b) Bury Solomon.
(c) Try to piece together what happened to Solomon.
(d) Go after the men who hurt Solomon.

3. Who does Mehring hear in the other room as he is resting?
(a) Antonia, his girlfriend.
(b) Alina, the servant.
(c) Terry, his son.
(d) Jacobus, a fieldhand.

4. Why do the Indians allow local blacks to shop?
(a) They are perfectly safe and harmless.
(b) They are the store's main customers.
(c) They like to cheat them out of their money.
(d) They fear the locals.

5. What is the symbol Jalal is painting?
(a) A smiley face.
(b) A peace sign.
(c) A yin yang sign.
(d) A gang sign.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Mehring think about as he walks?

2. Who does Mehring think of as he rests on the couch?

3. How does Mehring's farm look?

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

5. Where is Mehring's son, Terry?

(see the answer key)

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