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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Mehring not need water?
(a) He has his own well system.
(b) He has another river he uses.
(c) He purchases water from town.
(d) He has his own water tower.

2. What else does he note about the corpse?
(a) It has fairly nice clothes.
(b) It looks old.
(c) It is female.
(d) It has old, dirty clothing.

3. Who does Mehring think of as he rests on the couch?
(a) His wife.
(b) Antonia and Terry.
(c) Solomon and his brother.
(d) The De Beers.

4. What does Mehring make himself at the farmhouse?
(a) A scrapbook.
(b) New furniture.
(c) Some lunch.
(d) A hammock.

5. What else does Mehring worry about when he looks out the windows?
(a) The safety of his farmhands.
(b) When Antonia will return.
(c) The loss of his cattle.
(d) The possible loss of the water birds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Terry not seem to realize about the South African "system" he mocks?

2. Who does Mehring hear in the other room as he is resting?

3. Why does Mehring have the farm?

4. Why is Jacobus angry when one of the laborer youths, Izak, comes back from the nearby shantytown?

5. How long has there been a drought?

(see the answer key)

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