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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why is Mehring unable to get coffee at work?
(a) It is early.
(b) They do not serve coffee.
(c) The ran out.
(d) He did not bring money to buy coffee.

3. What is Antonia shocked to learn about Mehring?
(a) He owns a farm, while working as a businessman.
(b) He killed the man that was found by the river.
(c) He has a wife and small child in Johannesburg.
(d) He has a nearly grown son, and his wife left him and moved to New York.

4. What does Antonia tell Mehring about his property?
(a) It does not look as nice as it did before the fire.
(b) He should buy more property.
(c) The blacks will repossess his land within a generation.
(d) He should pass it on to his son when he dies.

5. What does Solomon ask Jacobus?
(a) Why Jacobus saved him.
(b) If he had actually died in the cold pasture.
(c) Why he is beaten and left for dead.
(d) Who saved him from the cold pasture.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the father and son at the store immediately do when they see Mehring?

2. Why can no one find Mehring?

3. On closer inspection, what does Jacobus discover about Solomon?

4. Who does Mehring think about when his guests leave?

5. What does the woman remember about Mehring?

(see the answer key)

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