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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a fire that starts on De Beer's property also burn?

2. Why is Jacobus angry when one of the laborer youths, Izak, comes back from the nearby shantytown?

3. Why does Antonia distance herself from Mehring?

4. How does Jacobus recommend Mehring attempt to preserve the body?

5. How is Mehring's relationship with his girlfriend?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Antonia.

2. What do the children say about the attack on Solomon?

3. Mehring has many regrets. What three of them be?

4. What do Mehring's business peers think about his farm?

5. Who is Merhring?

6. What do the farmhands think about what happened to Solomon?

7. Why do Mehring and his son argue?

8. Why is Mehring unconcerned about the river?

9. Who are Kurt and Emmy?

10. What destruction has the fire caused?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A theme in this book is mortality.

Part 1) What is mortality? Give examples from the text that involve this theme.

Part 2) Why is this a theme of the book?

Part 3) How are the characters in this book affected by this theme?

Essay Topic 2

The book sheds light on Mehring's relationship with women.

Part 1) Describe his relationship with Antonia.

Part 2) Describe two other incidences in the book in which Mehring comes into contact with women.

Part 3) Based on information from the text, what seems to be Mehring's opinion of women? Why?

Essay Topic 3

The concept of change is delved into throughout Chapter Seven.

Part 1) What are these changes?

Part 2) Choose one of these changes. Why is it important to the story?

Part 3) Choose another change. Why is it important to the story?

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