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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who speaks of bad spirits?
(a) Mehring.
(b) Jacobus.
(c) The children.
(d) The farmhands.

2. From whom does he receive an unexpected phone call and visit?
(a) His girlfriend.
(b) The police.
(c) His family.
(d) The De Beer family.

3. Why is Mehring not able to use the river as a water source?
(a) It is too low.
(b) It is dirty.
(c) It is contaminated.
(d) It does not belong to him.

4. How does Mehring reach the police?
(a) On the party line telephone.
(b) Sends Jacobus to tell them.
(c) On a walkie-talkie.
(d) Sends them a telegraph.

5. When Mehring roams his four-hundred-acre property, where does he always end up?
(a) At the spare farmhouse.
(b) Back at his farmhouse.
(c) In the barn.
(d) At the third pasture, where the reeds are.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Mehring's friends feel about his peaceful life?

2. What do the bad spirits haunt?

3. How is Solomon when Jacobus finds him?

4. How many generations of his unexpected visitors are present?

5. How does Mehring feel when he wakes up?

(see the answer key)

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