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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 Mehring do as he watches the storm?
(a) Talks to Jacobus.
(b) Reads a book.
(c) Drinks the whiskey.
(d) Takes photographs.

2. What streaks across the sky as Mehring reaches a stone outhouse?
(a) A plane.
(b) Heat lightning.
(c) A shooting star.
(d) A comet.

3. When they land at Johannesburg, after some polite conversation, what does the young girl do?
(a) She asks for his phone number.
(b) She joins her family.
(c) Screams out and runs to her mother.
(d) She asks his name.

4. What does Mehring find annoying about the Indians?
(a) They put on the charm.
(b) They do not treat him with respect.
(c) They do not work fast enough.
(d) They are not very helpful.

5. When is Mehring's only chance of seeing his son?
(a) He has no chance of seeing him.
(b) If his ex-wife brings her son back.
(c) If he leaves the country to visit him.
(d) If his son decides to return to South Africa.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Jacobus and Solomon planting in the field?

2. What will Terry be missing by staying in the United States with his mother?

3. Who is the man with Mehring that Mehring is thinking about?

4. Who stops by the Indians' store?

5. Why does Mehring ride in tourist class on a plane ride from Lisbon?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Mehring end up after walking across the compound?

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

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

4. What is wrong with Phineas' wife?

5. How do the farmhands spend Christmas day?

6. How does the disaster affect Mehring?

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

8. What does Mehring say about his hopes for his land when he dies? How does Antonia respond?

9. What is Jalal painting?

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

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