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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 is Mehring upset with Terry?
(a) Terry does not have the nerve to tell him in person that he is staying in the United States.
(b) Terry moved to the United States.
(c) Terry will not take over the farm.
(d) Terry will no longer be near him.

2. Of what do the Indians have an inevitable feeling?
(a) Their lawyers will cheat them out of their money.
(b) The locals will destroy their store.
(c) A government official with the power to shut them down and evict them for good.
(d) Mehring will have them closed down.

3. Why does Terry call from New York?
(a) To tell his father he will not be returning.
(b) To say he arrived safely.
(c) To say happy New Year.
(d) To wish Mehring happy birthday.

4. Why do people feel sorry for Phineas?
(a) His house is burned in the fire.
(b) He just lost his job.
(c) His wife is unpopular.
(d) He has no friends.

5. How might the owners of the Indian Store lose all they have worked for?
(a) The De Beer fire that spread throughout the county.
(b) Mehring cheats them of their money and prevents locals to purchase goods.
(c) Theft by the locals and confiscation or eviction by the government.
(d) A river flood in the spring.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Mehring easily able to make the issue with the young girl disappear?

2. What does Mehring send Jacobus down to do?

3. Why does Mehring no longer have much to do with pig iron?

4. When they land at Johannesburg, after some polite conversation, what does the young girl do?

5. What are the farmhands becoming on Christmas day?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who does Mehring run into as he is getting coffee? What does he find shocking about this girl?

4. After speaking to Jacobus, what does Mehring wonder?

5. How does Jacobus handle the natural disaster without Mehring?

6. How does Dorcas' husband handle the situation with the Indians?

7. How do the farmhands spend Christmas day?

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

9. What do the Indians think of the locals?

10. What does Mehring do while he is in the third pasture?

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