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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Mehring realize about Jacobus?
(a) How shrewd the man really is.
(b) How kind he really is.
(c) How close he is to Jacobus.
(d) How mean he really is.

3. What does Mehring do as he watches the storm?
(a) Talks to Jacobus.
(b) Takes photographs.
(c) Reads a book.
(d) Drinks the whiskey.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. What will Terry be missing by staying in the United States with his mother?
(a) The opportunity to take over the farm.
(b) His father.
(c) Mandatory military service.
(d) College in South Africa.

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

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

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

15. What does Mehring find in Terry's backpack?
(a) A publication published by "The Campaign for Homosexual Equality."
(b) A plane ticket to the United States.
(c) A photograph of his mother.
(d) Illegal drugs.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mehring evade the funeral?

2. Why do the streets become impassible?

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

4. What does Solomon ask Jacobus?

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

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