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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Phineas' wife doing at the celebration?
(a) She is drinking heavily.
(b) She is arguing with everyone at the party.
(c) Dancing crazily and describing the animals she can turn into.
(d) She is talking to herself in the corner of the room.

2. Why does Antonia taunt Mehring?
(a) She enjoys making others feel inferior.
(b) He works in the city as a pig-iron dealer.
(c) He is a socialist, while she is a capitalist.
(d) He annoys her.

3. How do the police handle problems in the shantytowns?
(a) They bring powerful weapons and shoot to kill.
(b) They destroy the shacks in the shantytown whenever possible.
(c) They let the "locals" take care of the problem themselves.
(d) They have a zero tolerance policy.

4. What does Antonia tell Mehring about his property?
(a) He should pass it on to his son when he dies.
(b) The blacks will repossess his land within a generation.
(c) He should buy more property.
(d) It does not look as nice as it did before the fire.

5. What does Solomon ask Jacobus?
(a) If he had actually died in the cold pasture.
(b) Why he is beaten and left for dead.
(c) Why Jacobus saved him.
(d) Who saved him from the cold pasture.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a sign that winter is weakening?

2. Why does Mehring buy the farm?

3. What does Mehring do as he watches the storm?

4. What does Mehring find in Terry's backpack?

5. Where is Antonia's husband?

(see the answer key)

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