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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. Jacobus is frantic at not being able to contact his master. How does he handle the situation?
(a) Not well.
(b) Well.
(c) Fairly well.
(d) Somewhat well.

2. Who stops by the Indians' store?
(a) Mehring.
(b) Izak.
(c) Jacobus.
(d) Solomon.

3. For what is the beer and goat meat?
(a) Jacobus' family.
(b) The celebration.
(c) Mehring's birthday party.
(d) Mehring's business associates.

4. Where does Mehring get his leg stuck?
(a) Through a broken floor board.
(b) In the third pasture mud.
(c) In the fence.
(d) In a car door.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is unusual about this storm?

2. What happens after the rain diminishes for a morning?

3. With what is Mehring charged, regarding the young girl on the plane?

4. How does Jacobus act as doctor?

5. What does Solomon find at the celebration?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the lives of the owners of the Indian Store.

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

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

4. Why is Jalal's father upset with what his son is painting?

5. How does Mehring feel about his farm?

6. How does the disaster affect Mehring?

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

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

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

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

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