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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Of what do the Indians have an inevitable feeling?
(a) Mehring will have them closed down.
(b) A government official with the power to shut them down and evict them for good.
(c) The locals will destroy their store.
(d) Their lawyers will cheat them out of their money.

3. What is unusual about this storm?
(a) It has no rain.
(b) It has no thunder or rain.
(c) It is very powerful.
(d) It blows through quickly.

4. What does Mehring think about as he walks through the property?
(a) How beautiful it is.
(b) How he wishes his son was as interested in the farm as he is.
(c) Marrying Antonia and living with her on the property.
(d) Being buried by the river and passing his land to his children, or at least his child.

5. Where does Mehring get his leg stuck?
(a) Through a broken floor board.
(b) In a car door.
(c) In the third pasture mud.
(d) In the fence.

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

7. What is Phineas' wife doing at the celebration?
(a) She is arguing with everyone at the party.
(b) Dancing crazily and describing the animals she can turn into.
(c) She is talking to herself in the corner of the room.
(d) She is drinking heavily.

8. What protects the Indians' fortified enclosure?
(a) A high-tech security system.
(b) Fences, roofs and dogs.
(c) Locals.
(d) Mehring's farmhands.

9. What streaks across the sky as Mehring reaches a stone outhouse?
(a) A shooting star.
(b) Heat lightning.
(c) A plane.
(d) A comet.

10. What does Mehring send Jacobus down to do?
(a) Start draining some of the trapped water.
(b) Help the couple stuck in their car.
(c) Move the cattle to a different field.
(d) Survey the damage.

11. When is Mehring's only chance of seeing his son?
(a) If his son decides to return to South Africa.
(b) If he leaves the country to visit him.
(c) If his ex-wife brings her son back.
(d) He has no chance of seeing him.

12. What is Jalal painting?
(a) The Indian Store.
(b) The windmill and water tank.
(c) His car.
(d) Mehring's home.

13. Why is Mehring unable to get coffee at work?
(a) The ran out.
(b) He did not bring money to buy coffee.
(c) It is early.
(d) They do not serve coffee.

14. Why do the streets become impassible?
(a) Dirt streets turn to mud.
(b) The police have them block of for safety reasons.
(c) Bridges have collapsed.
(d) The water is running across the streets.

15. Over what does Mehring muse?
(a) The running of his farm.
(b) His relationship with Antonia.
(c) The suicide of the girl's father.
(d) His uncaring son.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does Mehring walk through the property?

2. What are Jacobus and Solomon planting in the field?

3. What will Terry be missing by staying in the United States with his mother?

4. What does Solomon ask Jacobus?

5. What does Mehring find in Terry's backpack?

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