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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 is Izak playing loudly?
(a) The radio.
(b) The guitar.
(c) The piano.
(d) The clarinet.

2. Although cyanide is the quickest way to commit suicide, why does he believe it is not what the man used?
(a) It is expensive.
(b) It is not the "tycoon's way" to do it.
(c) It is very painful.
(d) One must have assistance in administering it.

3. What is wrong with the goat meat?
(a) It is spoiled.
(b) It is uncooked.
(c) There is not enough to go around.
(d) It falls on the ground.

4. What does Solomon think about, along with dying in the pasture?
(a) Existing with the other dead man who was buried there and never properly laid to rest.
(b) His brother's fate.
(c) The men who beat him and left him for dead.
(d) How the other man found by the river had died.

5. What is a sign that winter is weakening?
(a) Mehring no longer needs his winter coat.
(b) The river is no longer frozen.
(c) There is a warm wind some afternoons.
(d) Birds are chirping.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Mehring get his leg stuck?

2. What do the father and son at the store immediately do when they see Mehring?

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

4. Why do people feel sorry for Phineas?

5. Of what do the Indians have an inevitable feeling?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is Jalal painting?

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

5. What happens to Mehring as he is walking in the third pasture?

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

7. How do the farmhands spend Christmas day?

8. What do the Indians think of the locals?

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

10. How does the disaster affect Mehring?

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