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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 does Solomon find at the celebration?
(a) His boss.
(b) The goat that was being used at the feast.
(c) His friends.
(d) The beer.

2. What does Mehring think about as he walks through the property?
(a) How he wishes his son was as interested in the farm as he is.
(b) Being buried by the river and passing his land to his children, or at least his child.
(c) How beautiful it is.
(d) Marrying Antonia and living with her on the property.

3. How does Jacobus act as doctor?
(a) He bandages all that are injured.
(b) He gives the right herbal remedy to a sick dog.
(c) He uses the correct hypodermic on a sick cow.
(d) He sets the broken arm of one of the fieldhands.

4. What does Mehring notice about awakening on the farm?
(a) The sunshine is bright in his window.
(b) How warm it has become.
(c) He likes it better when Antonia is with him.
(d) He feels more awake than at his apartment in the city.

5. What happens to a woman trying to cross the flooded lowland between Mehring's and De Beers?
(a) She gets trapped at the De Beers' home.
(b) She gets trappe at Mehring's home.
(c) She gets stuck in the third pasture mud.
(d) She drowns.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Izak know the symbol Jalal is painting?

2. What does Antonia tell Mehring about his property?

3. When Mehring returns, what does he realize must remain?

4. What does Mehring find annoying about the Indians?

5. Why can Mehring not get to the farm for two weeks?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the outcome of the disaster on the farm?

2. What does Mehring learn about his son? Why is he upset?

3. What is wrong with Phineas' wife?

4. Why can the orange river lilies now be seen?

5. How does the disaster affect Mehring?

6. What can be found at the laborers' celebration?

7. How is Mehring only charged with "interfering" with the girl and can easily make the issue disappear?

8. How do the farmhands spend Christmas day?

9. What does the disaster mentioned in this chapter do to the land and people?

10. Describe Mehring's thoughts about his son and Antonia's hypocrisy.

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