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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 is wrong with the goat meat?

2. When is Mehring's only chance of seeing his son?

3. Why is Mehring upset with Terry?

4. Why can no one find Mehring?

5. Where does Mehring get his leg stuck?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the Indians react to Mehring being in their store?

2. How does Mehring feel about his farm?

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

4. How does the disaster affect Mehring?

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

6. What does Mehring do, regarding the girl whose father had committed suicide?

7. After speaking to Jacobus, what does Mehring wonder?

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

9. What is Jalal painting?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The author strongly hints at "something large" being unearthed by the flood.

Part 1) What is literally being unearthed? Why?

Part 2) What is figuratively being unearthed?

Part 3) How are both of the events handled by Mehring and his farmhands?

Essay Topic 2

Mehring has a close call under a bridge, which reminds us of one of Mehring's character flaws.

Part 1) What is this flaw?

Part 2) Mehring calls his son a hypocrite? How is he also a hypocrite?

Part 3) How are Mehing and Terry's flaws similar?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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