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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Mehring's son, Terry?
(a) In the United States with his mother.
(b) Away at college.
(c) On the farm with Mehring.
(d) In Johannesburg with his mother.

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

3. How does Antonia act mysteriously?
(a) By not naming her friends, like some secret agent.
(b) Mehring does not know where she lives.
(c) She will not give Mehring her phone number.
(d) She does not tell Mehring about her life.

4. What does Jacobus pass out at the meeting with several laborers?
(a) Cigarettes.
(b) Important contact information.
(c) Identification cards.
(d) Pamphlets.

5. Why does Mehring have the farm?
(a) To have a place where he can truly get away.
(b) He loves farming.
(c) To help the local economy.
(d) To show off for his business associates.

6. Where is Jacobus' meeting being held?
(a) In town at a local pub.
(b) The spare farmhouse.
(c) Jacobus' home.
(d) A barn.

7. Who does Mehring think about as he walks?
(a) Where he will find water for his farm.
(b) What he will plant in the fall.
(c) A particular woman.
(d) What jobs he needs to get done.

8. How does Jacobus recommend Mehring attempt to preserve the body?
(a) Call a taxidermist to preserve the remains.
(b) Put the remains in the large freezer in the barn.
(c) Cover the remains and make sure to keep any stray dogs away.
(d) Lay the remains in the cellar.

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

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

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

12. From whom does he receive an unexpected phone call and visit?
(a) The police.
(b) The De Beer family.
(c) His girlfriend.
(d) His family.

13. What does Solomon do after he questions the men?
(a) He reluctantly rises from bed and follows them out into the night.
(b) He runs away from the men.
(c) He goes to the police to let them know about the suspicious men.
(d) He ignores them and goes back to sleep.

14. Why does Mehring tear up the letter from his son?
(a) He knows that the boy is not his son.
(b) He and his son do not get along.
(c) His son's hypocrisy disgusts him.
(d) He is upset that his son is so far away.

15. Where does Jacobus tell Mehring they found a dead man?
(a) In his home.
(b) Near a mine.
(c) Near the river.
(d) In a field.

Short Answer Questions

1. What else does Mehring worry about when he looks out the windows?

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

3. Why does Mehring not need water?

4. Who has not been seen for several days?

5. Where does Mehring lie down and fall asleep?

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