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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a sign that winter is weakening?
(a) The river is no longer frozen.
(b) Mehring no longer needs his winter coat.
(c) Birds are chirping.
(d) There is a warm wind some afternoons.

2. Why does Terry call from New York?
(a) To tell his father he will not be returning.
(b) To say happy New Year.
(c) To wish Mehring happy birthday.
(d) To say he arrived safely.

3. Why does Mehring no longer have much to do with pig iron?
(a) He does not enjoy the work.
(b) It is mostly managed by partners.
(c) His partners bought his share of the company.
(d) He has his farmhands deal with it.

4. Why does Bismillah pace the outside perimeter of the compound?
(a) To check for any holes.
(b) To look for Solomon.
(c) To check for thieves.
(d) To turn on the security camera.

5. What does Solomon find at the celebration?
(a) His boss.
(b) The goat that was being used at the feast.
(c) The beer.
(d) His friends.

6. What does Mehring think would be more appropriate to plant?
(a) Corn.
(b) Indigenous trees.
(c) Tobacco.
(d) Wheat.

7. With what is Mehring charged, regarding the young girl on the plane?
(a) "Sexual assault."
(b) "Sexual harassment."
(c) "Child abuse."
(d) "Interfering."

8. Why must Bismillah keep alert?
(a) The locals often cannot count the money they shove at him.
(b) The fire has spread from De Beer's property.
(c) The government may come looking for them.
(d) The lawyers may cheat them out of their money.

9. What happens to a woman trying to cross the flooded lowland between Mehring's and De Beers?
(a) She gets trapped at the De Beers' home.
(b) She gets stuck in the third pasture mud.
(c) She drowns.
(d) She gets trappe at Mehring's home.

10. With whom does Mehring walk through the property?
(a) Terry.
(b) Solomon.
(c) Antonia.
(d) Jacobus.

11. Where does Mehring fall asleep?
(a) In the stone outhouse.
(b) Inside a sleeping bag.
(c) On the couch.
(d) In his bed.

12. Why are they so excited?
(a) They do not get much time off.
(b) They love to dance.
(c) There is plenty of beer.
(d) Meat is rare in the laborers' diet.

13. Why do Jacobus and Mehring talk about cattle?
(a) That is Jacobus' job.
(b) It is the one thing they really have in common.
(c) It is an important topic to discuss.
(d) Cattle are important on the farm.

14. Why is Bismillah's living space cramped?
(a) His wife just gave birth to twins.
(b) He has little money to spend on housing.
(c) His son and daughter-in-law have recently moved in.
(d) During the fire he had to move his wares into his home.

15. What does Mehring notice about the orange river lilies?
(a) They are blooming in fiery splendor at the riverbank.
(b) They are not as plentiful as before the fire.
(c) They are growing where Solomon is found.
(d) They are the same color as Antonia's hair.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Phineas' wife acting strangely?

2. What does Solomon think about, along with dying in the pasture?

3. Where does Mehring get his leg stuck?

4. Why is Mehring easily able to make the issue with the young girl disappear?

5. What do the Indians allow black laborers to do?

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