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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the father and son at the store immediately do when they see Mehring?
(a) Stare at Mehring.
(b) Jump into action.
(c) Complain about working too hard.
(d) Pretend to be busy.

2. What is Izak playing loudly?
(a) The piano.
(b) The guitar.
(c) The clarinet.
(d) The radio.

3. 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 has just stolen from the store.
(c) She refuses to pay full price for her purchases.
(d) She is late arriving to work.

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

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

6. Why do the Indians allow local blacks to shop?
(a) They fear the locals.
(b) They are the store's main customers.
(c) They like to cheat them out of their money.
(d) They are perfectly safe and harmless.

7. When Mehring returns, what does he realize must remain?
(a) The debris in the yard.
(b) Some of his staffs' increased responsibilities.
(c) The new path of the river.
(d) Jacobus as a doctor.

8. Who stops by the Indians' store?
(a) Solomon.
(b) Izak.
(c) Mehring.
(d) Jacobus.

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

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

11. Why do people feel sorry for Phineas?
(a) His wife is unpopular.
(b) He just lost his job.
(c) His house is burned in the fire.
(d) He has no friends.

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

13. Why does Mehring ride in tourist class on a plane ride from Lisbon?
(a) There is no room in first class.
(b) There is no first class on the plane.
(c) He enjoys getting to know the locals.
(d) He does not have the money to purchase a first class seat.

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mehring send Jacobus down to do?

2. Why is Mehring easily able to make the issue with the young girl disappear?

3. For what is the beer and goat meat?

4. What protects the Indians' fortified enclosure?

5. Although cyanide is the quickest way to commit suicide, why does he believe it is not what the man used?

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