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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 farmhands do, regarding Solomon?
(a) Try to find Solomon.
(b) Go after the men who hurt Solomon.
(c) Try to piece together what happened to Solomon.
(d) Bury Solomon.

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

3. How many generations of his unexpected visitors are present?
(a) One.
(b) Ten.
(c) Seven.
(d) Three.

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

5. How is Solomon when Jacobus finds him?
(a) He is beaten badly and stripped naked.
(b) He has a broken leg.
(c) He is asleep.
(d) He is dead.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mehring buy the farm?

2. How is Mehring's relationship with his girlfriend?

3. What does Mehring despair about in the spare farmhouse?

4. Why do people dig through piles of garbage?

5. What does Mehring make himself at the farmhouse?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do they handle Solomon's situation?

2. Who are Kurt and Emmy?

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

4. What destruction has the fire caused?

5. Why do Mehring and his son argue?

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

7. Why is Jacobus angry, regarding Izak?

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

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

10. Why is Mehring unconcerned about the river?

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