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

2. What aspect of the farm does Mehring like?
(a) The hired help.
(b) The fields.
(c) The animals and plants.
(d) It is secluded and has no pesky witnesses.

3. Who speaks of bad spirits?
(a) Mehring.
(b) The farmhands.
(c) Jacobus.
(d) The children.

4. What does Antonia say wistfully to Mehring?
(a) "I wish Terry was my son..."
(b) "I wish I could stay with you..."
(c) "I wish I had your farm..."
(d) "I wish I could marry you..."

5. Where does Mehring do after returning from his trip?
(a) Looks for thieves.
(b) Takes a walk by the river.
(c) Takes a nap on a hammock.
(d) Begins plowing the fields.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Mehring, Jacobus and a farmhand try and repair?

2. Who leads the conversation?

3. On first glance, what does Jacobus think about Solomon?

4. What makes Mehring's irrigation efforts almost useless?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is known about the corpse?

2. What do the farmhands think about what happened to Solomon?

3. What does Jacobus learn about available work for the men?

4. Describe the environment at the beginning of this chapter.

5. Mehring has many regrets. What three of them be?

6. Why is Jacobus angry, regarding Izak?

7. Why does Mehring buy the farm?

8. Why is Mehring unconcerned about the river?

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

10. What does Mehring believe is the cause for the fire?

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