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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mehring despair about in the spare farmhouse?
(a) It is not very large.
(b) It is falling apart.
(c) It smells of cat.
(d) It has mice and rats.

2. Who stops by the Indians' store?
(a) Jacobus.
(b) Mehring.
(c) Izak.
(d) Solomon.

3. Why does Mehring buy the farm?
(a) He enjoys farming and being in nature.
(b) He thinks it would make a great place to bring a woman.
(c) It is a relaxing oasis from the business world in which he works.
(d) His family loves to visit him at the farm.

4. What does Terry not seem to realize about the South African "system" he mocks?
(a) Terry's father works for that system.
(b) It is the best system on the continent of Africa.
(c) It is the same one that pays for him and his mother's lifestyle.
(d) It is not as flawed as he believes it to be.

5. Besides passing through the city, what else must Mehring drive through to get to his property?
(a) A built up Transvaal village.
(b) A park.
(c) Several Transvaal villages.
(d) A dangerous neighborhood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Antonia tell Mehring about his property?

2. Why does Mehring take the opportunity to put his hand on the young girl's thigh?

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

4. Why is Mehring furious that the police borrowed a shovel from Jacobus?

5. Over what does Mehring muse?

(see the answer key)

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