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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Why are several of the Indians at the store worried?
(a) They fear the murderer will return.
(b) The police will charge them with murder because they are part of an ethnic minority.
(c) The police will raid their store to find clues to the murder.
(d) The police will uncover the fact that they are in the country illegally.

3. Who does Mehring think about when his guests leave?
(a) His girlfriend.
(b) His home.
(c) The corpse on his property.
(d) His sixteen-year-old son.

4. 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.

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

6. How does Mehring reach the police?
(a) Sends them a telegraph.
(b) On the party line telephone.
(c) On a walkie-talkie.
(d) Sends Jacobus to tell them.

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

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

9. How does Mehring feel as he takes in the scene: river, reeds and willows?
(a) Peaceful.
(b) Bored.
(c) Unsure.
(d) Anxious.

10. What does Jacobus reassure the men who do not have proper work papers?
(a) He will protect them.
(b) They will not be caught.
(c) He will get work papers for them.
(d) He can help them work in town.

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

12. What is Antonia shocked to learn about Mehring?
(a) He has a nearly grown son, and his wife left him and moved to New York.
(b) He owns a farm, while working as a businessman.
(c) He killed the man that was found by the river.
(d) He has a wife and small child in Johannesburg.

13. Where does Jacobus find Solomon?
(a) In bed.
(b) In the river.
(c) In town.
(d) In a nearby field.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a fire that starts on De Beer's property also burn?

2. What makes the dust-filled air worse?

3. What do the police tell Mehring will happen in the next several days?

4. Who leads the conversation?

5. Where does Jacobus tell Mehring they found a dead man?

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