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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Phineas' wife acting strangely?
(a) She is alone in a corner of the room talking to herself.
(b) She is arguing with everyone at the party.
(c) She had been having dreams and thinks she is turning into an animal.
(d) She is dancing around drunkenly.

2. What does Mehring also consider?
(a) Buying gifts for all the men.
(b) Selling the farm.
(c) Giving Jacobus a bonus.
(d) Bonuses for the men.

3. How does Jacobus act as doctor?
(a) He bandages all that are injured.
(b) He uses the correct hypodermic on a sick cow.
(c) He sets the broken arm of one of the fieldhands.
(d) He gives the right herbal remedy to a sick dog.

4. Why is Mehring easily able to make the issue with the young girl disappear?
(a) She did not complain.
(b) He is innocent.
(c) The girl's family are immigrants and do not want trouble.
(d) The girl's family is of a lower social class and therefore powerless.

5. How does Mehring evade the funeral?
(a) By say he is sick.
(b) By calling on the family later in the week.
(c) By sending Antonia in his stead.
(d) By sending a large bouquet and donation to the widow.

6. Why can no one find Mehring?
(a) He is in the cellar.
(b) He is in the deep grass of the third pasture.
(c) He is in his room with the door locked.
(d) He is by the river.

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

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

9. What starts the rain storm?
(a) A cold front.
(b) A warm front.
(c) El Nino.
(d) A cyclone.

10. Why is William in an argument with a woman named Dorcas?
(a) She claims her husband's money is being withheld by the Indians.
(b) She refuses to pay full price for her purchases.
(c) She is late arriving to work.
(d) She has just stolen from the store.

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

12. What are the farmhands becoming on Christmas day?
(a) Lazy.
(b) Religious.
(c) Caring.
(d) Drunk.

13. What happens to a couple when a torrent at a small gully turns into a sudden flood?
(a) They are swept away in their car to their deaths.
(b) Their car runs into Mehring's farmhouse.
(c) They swim to safety.
(d) They get stranded in the middle of the river.

14. What does Mehring take as he walks across the compound?
(a) A sleeping bag.
(b) A book.
(c) A bunch of lilies.
(d) A bottle of whiskey.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When is Mehring's only chance of seeing his son?

2. What is unusual about this storm?

3. Why does Terry call from New York?

4. Jacobus is frantic at not being able to contact his master. How does he handle the situation?

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

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