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

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

3. Who speaks of bad spirits?
(a) Jacobus.
(b) The children.
(c) The farmhands.
(d) Mehring.

4. What does Mehring own?
(a) A farm in rural South Africa.
(b) A large home in the city.
(c) A zoo in Cambodia.
(d) An automobile dealership in Australia.

5. What is Solomon told about his brother?
(a) His brother is dead.
(b) His brother is leaving town.
(c) His brother needs him.
(d) His brother is in jail.

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

7. What does Antonia not believe about Mehring?
(a) He has a wife.
(b) He has a son.
(c) The farm belongs to him.
(d) His mail is confidential.

8. How is Solomon when Jacobus finds him?
(a) He has a broken leg.
(b) He is asleep.
(c) He is dead.
(d) He is beaten badly and stripped naked.

9. Where do they take Solomon?
(a) To the hospital.
(b) Home.
(c) To Mehring's.
(d) To a friend's home.

10. What blows garbage from the camps and industrial sites into the air?
(a) An east wind.
(b) Large fans.
(c) Ocean winds.
(d) August winds.

11. What do the police tell Mehring will happen in the next several days?
(a) The police will hunt for the murderer.
(b) The body will be relocated once the mortuary van becomes available.
(c) A funeral will be held for the person found on Mehring's property.
(d) He will be investigated for the murder of this person.

12. How many generations of his unexpected visitors are present?
(a) One.
(b) Ten.
(c) Seven.
(d) Three.

13. How does Mehring feel about the policeman's reassurances that it will not reflect badly on him?
(a) He is very worried.
(b) He is somewhat assuaged.
(c) He is confident.
(d) He is unconcerned.

14. On first glance, what does Jacobus think about Solomon?
(a) He is dead.
(b) He has run away.
(c) He is stealing from Mehring.
(d) He is sick.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. About what is Mehring concerned?

2. What makes the dust-filled air worse?

3. Why is Mehring furious that the police borrowed a shovel from Jacobus?

4. How does Antonia contradict her "everything goes" front?

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

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