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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Jacobus recommend Mehring attempt to preserve the body?
(a) Call a taxidermist to preserve the remains.
(b) Lay the remains in the cellar.
(c) Cover the remains and make sure to keep any stray dogs away.
(d) Put the remains in the large freezer in the barn.

2. What does a fire that starts on De Beer's property also burn?
(a) Part of the town.
(b) The shantytown.
(c) Sections of Mehring's farm.
(d) Mehring's farmhouse.

3. Why do people dig through piles of garbage?
(a) To look for clothing.
(b) To find food.
(c) To find lost items.
(d) To look for anything of value.

4. Who asks for Solomon?
(a) Mehring.
(b) A pair of men.
(c) Jacobus.
(d) His brother.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Antonia's husband?

2. How does Mehring feel as he takes in the scene: river, reeds and willows?

3. Who leads the conversation?

4. What else does Mehring worry about when he looks out the windows?

5. About what do they speak?

(see the answer key)

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