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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Antonia taunt Mehring?
(a) He is a socialist, while she is a capitalist.
(b) She enjoys making others feel inferior.
(c) He works in the city as a pig-iron dealer.
(d) He annoys her.

2. 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) The police will uncover the fact that they are in the country illegally.
(c) They fear the murderer will return.
(d) The police will raid their store to find clues to the murder.

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

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

5. What else does he note about the corpse?
(a) It has fairly nice clothes.
(b) It looks old.
(c) It is female.
(d) It has old, dirty clothing.

6. How do Mehring's friends feel about his peaceful life?
(a) They think nothing of it, for they have their own peaceful lives.
(b) They love to visit him and be a part of his peaceful life.
(c) They find it boring.
(d) They marvel at it.

7. What do Mehring, Jacobus and a farmhand try and repair?
(a) A water pump for the cattle.
(b) The roof on the house.
(c) A fence for the cattle.
(d) A tractor.

8. Why does Mehring think the body was probably dumped there?
(a) It's a quiet place that no one would notice.
(b) The dead man has no mud on his shoes.
(c) He does not know the man.
(d) There were marks showing it had been dragged.

9. Where does Jacobus find Solomon?
(a) In town.
(b) In a nearby field.
(c) In the river.
(d) In bed.

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

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

12. How does Mehring reach the police?
(a) Sends Jacobus to tell them.
(b) On a walkie-talkie.
(c) Sends them a telegraph.
(d) On the party line telephone.

13. Besides passing through the city, what else must Mehring drive through to get to his property?
(a) Several Transvaal villages.
(b) A dangerous neighborhood.
(c) A park.
(d) A built up Transvaal village.

14. How does Mehring's farm look?
(a) Lush.
(b) Burnt.
(c) Dusty.
(d) Fresh.

15. Where does Mehring do after returning from his trip?
(a) Looks for thieves.
(b) Begins plowing the fields.
(c) Takes a walk by the river.
(d) Takes a nap on a hammock.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Antonia distance herself from Mehring?

2. Who does Mehring hear in the other room as he is resting?

3. What does Jacobus reassure the men who do not have proper work papers?

4. Why is Mehring not a true farmer?

5. Why is Jacobus angry when one of the laborer youths, Izak, comes back from the nearby shantytown?

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