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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mehring worry about as he looks out the windows?
(a) How he will pay for repairs on his farm.
(b) Whether or not the fire will stop on its own.
(c) The burned willows.
(d) When Antonia will return.

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

3. Where is Jacobus' meeting being held?
(a) The spare farmhouse.
(b) In town at a local pub.
(c) Jacobus' home.
(d) A barn.

4. What does Mehring make himself at the farmhouse?
(a) New furniture.
(b) Some lunch.
(c) A scrapbook.
(d) A hammock.

5. 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.

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

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

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

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

10. How do Mehring's business peers feel out his "hobby" farm?
(a) They are disgusted.
(b) They are embarrassed.
(c) They feel envious.
(d) They find it ridiculous.

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

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

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

14. Who has not been seen for several days?
(a) Solomon's brother.
(b) Mehring.
(c) Jacobus.
(d) Solomon's mother.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What else does he note about the corpse?

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

3. How does Mehring feel when he wakes up?

4. Why does Mehring go back to the farmhouse?

5. What is Antonia shocked to learn about Mehring?

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