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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What makes Mehring's irrigation efforts almost useless?
(a) The wind.
(b) The burning fire.
(c) The lack of water.
(d) The lack of assistance by his farmhands.

3. About what is Mehring concerned?
(a) His safety.
(b) Jacobus' innocense.
(c) Both the incident and the frost.
(d) His farm.

4. About what do they speak?
(a) Business and the history of the land.
(b) The farm.
(c) The dead body on his property.
(d) Business in town.

5. Mehring realizes that the house is wasted, but what is the true value?
(a) The lives of his farmhands.
(b) His life.
(c) The land itself.
(d) His animals.

Short Answer Questions

1. Besides passing through the city, what else must Mehring drive through to get to his property?

2. Where is Mehring's son, Terry?

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

4. Why does Antonia distance herself from Mehring?

5. Why do people dig through piles of garbage?

(see the answer key)

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