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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. Who leads the conversation?

2. What does Mehring make himself at the farmhouse?

3. When Mehring roams his four-hundred-acre property, where does he always end up?

4. Where does Mehring do after returning from his trip?

5. What blows garbage from the camps and industrial sites into the air?

Short Essay Questions

1. What has happened to Solomon?

2. Why is Jacobus angry, regarding Izak?

3. How do they handle Solomon's situation?

4. What is the path of the fire?

5. What does Jacobus do when he finds a dead body? Where does he find it? What does Mehring do?

6. Why does Solomon leave the compound?

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

8. Who are Kurt and Emmy?

9. Who calls unexpectedly? What do they discuss with Mehring?

10. Who is Antonia?

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

Mehring and his son Terry are very different, but also have some similarities.

Part 1) Describe Terry.

Part 2) How are Mehring and Terry different?

Part 3) What are the similarities between Mehring and Terry?

Essay Topic 3

Mehring finds a pamphlet for supporting homosexuality in his son's backpack.

Part 1) Describe Mehring's reaction to finding this information.

Part 2) What evidence can be found in the book to support the fact that Terry may be a homosexual?

Part 3) Does Mehring have the right to look through his son's backpack? Why or why not?

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