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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Lay the remains in the cellar.
(d) Cover the remains and make sure to keep any stray dogs away.

2. What else does Mehring worry about when he looks out the windows?
(a) The safety of his farmhands.
(b) The possible loss of the water birds.
(c) When Antonia will return.
(d) The loss of his cattle.

3. What does Mehring do when he returns to the farmhouse?
(a) He cooks dinner.
(b) He talks to Jacobus.
(c) He takes a nap.
(d) He takes a shower.

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

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

6. What do the bad spirits haunt?
(a) The town.
(b) Jacobus' home.
(c) Mehring's house.
(d) The third pasture where Solomon was found.

7. What does Jacobus do when he returns to the farm?
(a) He goes back to work.
(b) He buries Solomon.
(c) He hides in his home.
(d) He calls Mehring to inform him of the incident.

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

9. What does Jacobus assume is the reason for the incident involving Solomon?
(a) He is protecting his brother who is a member of a gang.
(b) Creditors beat him up because his brother owed someone money.
(c) He is involved in a drug deal gone bad.
(d) The men accidently beat up the wrong man.

10. Why does Mehring not need water?
(a) He has another river he uses.
(b) He has his own well system.
(c) He has his own water tower.
(d) He purchases water from town.

11. Describe Terry's personality.
(a) Unsure.
(b) Spoiled.
(c) Shy.
(d) Kind.

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

13. 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 nearly grown son, and his wife left him and moved to New York.
(d) He has a wife and small child in Johannesburg.

14. What does Mehring think he should do but know he will not do?
(a) Call his son.
(b) Clean up from the fire.
(c) Write a letter.
(d) Sell the farm.

15. What is one of Mehring's many regrets?
(a) Not taking the time to do "father" things with Terry.
(b) Allowing his wife to move to the United States.
(c) Letting his son go away to college.
(d) Not marrying Antonia.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mehring feel as he takes in the scene: river, reeds and willows?

2. Mehring realizes that the house is wasted, but what is the true value?

3. Where is Mehring's son, Terry?

4. How does Mehring reach the police?

5. Why does Mehring tear up the letter from his son?

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