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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Solomon when Jacobus finds him?
(a) He is dead.
(b) He has a broken leg.
(c) He is asleep.
(d) He is beaten badly and stripped naked.

2. From whom does he receive an unexpected phone call and visit?
(a) His family.
(b) The De Beer family.
(c) His girlfriend.
(d) The police.

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

4. What does Mehring despair about in the spare farmhouse?
(a) It has mice and rats.
(b) It smells of cat.
(c) It is falling apart.
(d) It is not very large.

5. What does Jacobus pass out at the meeting with several laborers?
(a) Identification cards.
(b) Cigarettes.
(c) Pamphlets.
(d) Important contact information.

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

7. Why does Mehring think the body was probably dumped there?
(a) There were marks showing it had been dragged.
(b) The dead man has no mud on his shoes.
(c) He does not know the man.
(d) It's a quiet place that no one would notice.

8. What blows garbage from the camps and industrial sites into the air?
(a) An east wind.
(b) Large fans.
(c) Ocean winds.
(d) August winds.

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

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

11. How does Mehring feel when he wakes up?
(a) Momentarily confused,
(b) Sick.
(c) Tired.
(d) Wide awake.

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

13. What aspect of the farm does Mehring like?
(a) The fields.
(b) The hired help.
(c) It is secluded and has no pesky witnesses.
(d) The animals and plants.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mehring think he should do but know he will not do?

2. How do Mehring's business peers feel out his "hobby" farm?

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

4. Where is Antonia's husband?

5. How is Mehring's relationship with his girlfriend?

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