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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Mehring find annoying about the Indians?
(a) They are not very helpful.
(b) They put on the charm.
(c) They do not work fast enough.
(d) They do not treat him with respect.

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

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

5. Jacobus is frantic at not being able to contact his master. How does he handle the situation?
(a) Not well.
(b) Well.
(c) Somewhat well.
(d) Fairly well.

6. Why is Mehring upset with Terry?
(a) Terry will not take over the farm.
(b) Terry does not have the nerve to tell him in person that he is staying in the United States.
(c) Terry will no longer be near him.
(d) Terry moved to the United States.

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

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

9. What does Solomon ask Jacobus?
(a) Why he is beaten and left for dead.
(b) Why Jacobus saved him.
(c) If he had actually died in the cold pasture.
(d) Who saved him from the cold pasture.

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

11. 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) How the other man found by the river had died.
(c) The men who beat him and left him for dead.
(d) His brother's fate.

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

13. How do the Indians hope to keep officials at bay?
(a) Security cameras and fencing.
(b) Money paid constantly towards lawyers.
(c) Legal documents.
(d) Large guard dogs.

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

15. What are Jacobus and Solomon planting in the field?
(a) Small chestnut seedlings.
(b) Native plants.
(c) Oak trees.
(d) Corn.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what car do Mehring and his son ride?

2. Why do the Indians allow local blacks to shop?

3. What protects the Indians' fortified enclosure?

4. Why does Bismillah pace the outside perimeter of the compound?

5. What is a sign that winter is weakening?

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