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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Antonia tell Mehring about his property?
(a) It does not look as nice as it did before the fire.
(b) The blacks will repossess his land within a generation.
(c) He should buy more property.
(d) He should pass it on to his son when he dies.

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

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

4. What does Solomon think about, along with dying in the pasture?
(a) Existing with the other dead man who was buried there and never properly laid to rest.
(b) The men who beat him and left him for dead.
(c) His brother's fate.
(d) How the other man found by the river had died.

5. When they land at Johannesburg, after some polite conversation, what does the young girl do?
(a) She asks his name.
(b) Screams out and runs to her mother.
(c) She asks for his phone number.
(d) She joins her family.

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

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

8. Why does Mehring stop by the Indians' store to get a Christmas present for Jacobus and his staff?
(a) His office assistant is unavailable.
(b) The Indians store is the closest place to buy gifts.
(c) He enjoys shopping for his staff.
(d) He believes everyone deserves a Christmas gift.

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

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

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

12. How might the owners of the Indian Store lose all they have worked for?
(a) The De Beer fire that spread throughout the county.
(b) A river flood in the spring.
(c) Mehring cheats them of their money and prevents locals to purchase goods.
(d) Theft by the locals and confiscation or eviction by the government.

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

14. What do the Indians allow black laborers to do?
(a) Fix holes in the fence.
(b) Stock the store.
(c) Work in the store.
(d) Create advertisments for the store.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mehring think would be more appropriate to plant?

2. Over what does Mehring muse?

3. What does Mehring notice about awakening on the farm?

4. What happens to a woman trying to cross the flooded lowland between Mehring's and De Beers?

5. What must raise the alarm that quickly goes around the farm?

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