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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 else does he note about the corpse?
(a) It is female.
(b) It has old, dirty clothing.
(c) It looks old.
(d) It has fairly nice clothes.

2. Where is Mehring's son, Terry?
(a) Away at college.
(b) On the farm with Mehring.
(c) In Johannesburg with his mother.
(d) In the United States with his mother.

3. What does Mehring do when he returns to the farmhouse?
(a) He talks to Jacobus.
(b) He takes a shower.
(c) He takes a nap.
(d) He cooks dinner.

4. Where is Antonia's husband?
(a) Dead.
(b) In the United States.
(c) Away on research.
(d) In town.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Solomon told about his brother?

2. How is Solomon when Jacobus finds him?

3. When Mehring roams his four-hundred-acre property, where does he always end up?

4. What does Jacobus pass out at the meeting with several laborers?

5. What does Antonia say wistfully to Mehring?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the children say about the attack on Solomon?

2. Why does Solomon leave the compound?

3. How do they handle Solomon's situation?

4. Who is Merhring?

5. What destruction has the fire caused?

6. Who is Antonia?

7. What do Mehring's business peers think about his farm?

8. What does Jacobus do when he finds a dead body? Where does he find it? What does Mehring do?

9. What might be the reason for Mehring's thoughts of his sixteen-year-old son?

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

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