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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) Some lunch.
(b) A scrapbook.
(c) A hammock.
(d) New furniture.

2. Where is Antonia's husband?
(a) Dead.
(b) In the United States.
(c) In town.
(d) Away on research.

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

4. Who does Mehring think of as he rests on the couch?
(a) Antonia and Terry.
(b) The De Beers.
(c) His wife.
(d) Solomon and his brother.

5. To what "business" does Mehring try to go back?
(a) Farming his land.
(b) Stopping some boys from taking native hen's eggs.
(c) Chasing ferrel dogs off his property.
(d) Training horses.

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

7. About what do they speak?
(a) Business in town.
(b) The farm.
(c) The dead body on his property.
(d) Business and the history of the land.

8. Why is Mehring not able to use the river as a water source?
(a) It is too low.
(b) It is contaminated.
(c) It is dirty.
(d) It does not belong to him.

9. What does a fire that starts on De Beer's property also burn?
(a) Sections of Mehring's farm.
(b) Mehring's farmhouse.
(c) Part of the town.
(d) The shantytown.

10. On closer inspection, what does Jacobus discover about Solomon?
(a) He is sick.
(b) He is dead.
(c) He is dying.
(d) He is breathing.

11. Why do people dig through piles of garbage?
(a) To find food.
(b) To look for clothing.
(c) To find lost items.
(d) To look for anything of value.

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

13. What makes Mehring's irrigation efforts almost useless?
(a) The lack of water.
(b) The wind.
(c) The lack of assistance by his farmhands.
(d) The burning fire.

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

15. Who is his current girlfriend?
(a) Alice.
(b) Antoinette.
(c) Anna.
(d) Antonia.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the police handle problems in the shantytowns?

2. How is Solomon when Jacobus finds him?

3. Where does Mehring lie down and fall asleep?

4. Who has not been seen for several days?

5. Who leads the conversation?

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