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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the bad spirits haunt?
(a) Jacobus' home.
(b) The town.
(c) The third pasture where Solomon was found.
(d) Mehring's house.

2. Who is Antonia?
(a) Mehring's best friend.
(b) Mehring's mother.
(c) Mehring's leftist, anti-capitalist girlfriend.
(d) Mehring's sister.

3. What does Terry not seem to realize about the South African "system" he mocks?
(a) It is the best system on the continent of Africa.
(b) It is the same one that pays for him and his mother's lifestyle.
(c) Terry's father works for that system.
(d) It is not as flawed as he believes it to be.

4. What does Jacobus assume is the reason for the incident involving Solomon?
(a) He is protecting his brother who is a member of a gang.
(b) He is involved in a drug deal gone bad.
(c) The men accidently beat up the wrong man.
(d) Creditors beat him up because his brother owed someone money.

5. Who asks for Solomon?
(a) Mehring.
(b) His brother.
(c) Jacobus.
(d) A pair of men.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Mehring hear in the other room as he is resting?

2. Why does Mehring think the body was probably dumped there?

3. Why does Mehring not need water?

4. Why is Jacobus angry when one of the laborer youths, Izak, comes back from the nearby shantytown?

5. What does Mehring do when he returns to the farmhouse?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mehring think about as he is resting on the couch?

2. How do they handle Solomon's situation?

3. What has happened to Solomon?

4. What do the police do once they are notified about the dead body?

5. Describe Antonia.

6. How do the Indians feel about the police investigation?

7. What takes place at the meeting being held by Jacobus?

8. Why is Jacobus angry, regarding Izak?

9. Why does Solomon leave the compound?

10. Who calls unexpectedly? What do they discuss with Mehring?

(see the answer keys)

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