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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Mehring make himself at the farmhouse?
(a) A scrapbook.
(b) Some lunch.
(c) A hammock.
(d) New furniture.
2. What does Antonia say wistfully to Mehring?
(a) "I wish I could marry you..."
(b) "I wish I had your farm..."
(c) "I wish I could stay with you..."
(d) "I wish Terry was my son..."
3. Why is Mehring furious that the police borrowed a shovel from Jacobus?
(a) It is dirty.
(b) He cannot find it.
(c) To bury the body at the site.
(d) It is now bent.
4. How does Antonia contradict her "everything goes" front?
(a) Her shy personality.
(b) Her sensible advice.
(c) Her conservative clothing.
(d) Her closed way of talking.
5. What else does he note about the corpse?
(a) It is female.
(b) It looks old.
(c) It has fairly nice clothes.
(d) It has old, dirty clothing.
6. How is Solomon when Jacobus finds him?
(a) He is beaten badly and stripped naked.
(b) He has a broken leg.
(c) He is asleep.
(d) He is dead.
7. Where is Mehring's son, Terry?
(a) On the farm with Mehring.
(b) In Johannesburg with his mother.
(c) Away at college.
(d) In the United States with his mother.
8. What does Jacobus do when he returns to the farm?
(a) He goes back to work.
(b) He calls Mehring to inform him of the incident.
(c) He buries Solomon.
(d) He hides in his home.
9. Who does Jacobus call as the men look on skeptically and somewhat fearfully?
(a) Backup.
(b) William at the Indian Store.
(c) Mehring at the farm.
(d) The police.
10. Who speaks of bad spirits?
(a) Jacobus.
(b) The children.
(c) The farmhands.
(d) Mehring.
11. How does Mehring feel when he wakes up?
(a) Momentarily confused,
(b) Tired.
(c) Sick.
(d) Wide awake.
12. What is one of Mehring's many regrets?
(a) Letting his son go away to college.
(b) Allowing his wife to move to the United States.
(c) Not marrying Antonia.
(d) Not taking the time to do "father" things with Terry.
13. Who has not been seen for several days?
(a) Solomon's mother.
(b) Jacobus.
(c) Mehring.
(d) Solomon's brother.
14. Where is Jacobus' meeting being held?
(a) The spare farmhouse.
(b) In town at a local pub.
(c) A barn.
(d) Jacobus' home.
15. What blows garbage from the camps and industrial sites into the air?
(a) Large fans.
(b) August winds.
(c) Ocean winds.
(d) An east wind.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Terry not seem to realize about the South African "system" he mocks?
2. What is Solomon told about his brother?
3. Why does Mehring have the farm?
4. Who leads the conversation?
5. Who is Antonia?
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