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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. Why are several of the Indians at the store worried?
(a) The police will uncover the fact that they are in the country illegally.
(b) They fear the murderer will return.
(c) The police will charge them with murder because they are part of an ethnic minority.
(d) The police will raid their store to find clues to the murder.

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

3. Who takes credit for putting out the fire?
(a) De Beer.
(b) Jacobus.
(c) Solomon.
(d) Mehring.

4. Why does Mehring buy the farm?
(a) His family loves to visit him at the farm.
(b) He enjoys farming and being in nature.
(c) He thinks it would make a great place to bring a woman.
(d) It is a relaxing oasis from the business world in which he works.

5. How do the police handle problems in the shantytowns?
(a) They let the "locals" take care of the problem themselves.
(b) They bring powerful weapons and shoot to kill.
(c) They destroy the shacks in the shantytown whenever possible.
(d) They have a zero tolerance policy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mehring own?

2. What else does he note about the corpse?

3. While he thinks of their sexual liaisons, what does Mehring realize about Antonia?

4. How does Mehring reach the police?

5. Besides passing through the city, what else must Mehring drive through to get to his property?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does Mehring buy the farm?

5. Who is Antonia?

6. What has happened to Solomon?

7. What do we learn about Mehring's family?

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

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

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

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