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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

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. Who has not been seen for several days?
(a) Jacobus.
(b) Mehring.
(c) Solomon's brother.
(d) Solomon's mother.

3. What does Jacobus do when he returns to the farm?
(a) He hides in his home.
(b) He buries Solomon.
(c) He calls Mehring to inform him of the incident.
(d) He goes back to work.

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

5. Where do they take Solomon?
(a) To a friend's home.
(b) Home.
(c) To the hospital.
(d) To Mehring's.

6. Why is Mehring furious that the police borrowed a shovel from Jacobus?
(a) He cannot find it.
(b) To bury the body at the site.
(c) It is dirty.
(d) It is now bent.

7. How does Mehring feel when he wakes up?
(a) Sick.
(b) Tired.
(c) Momentarily confused,
(d) Wide awake.

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

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

10. How does Antonia contradict her "everything goes" front?
(a) Her closed way of talking.
(b) Her shy personality.
(c) Her sensible advice.
(d) Her conservative clothing.

11. Why does Mehring think the body was probably dumped there?
(a) It's a quiet place that no one would notice.
(b) There were marks showing it had been dragged.
(c) The dead man has no mud on his shoes.
(d) He does not know the man.

12. How many generations of his unexpected visitors are present?
(a) One.
(b) Seven.
(c) Ten.
(d) Three.

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

14. Who does Mehring think about when his guests leave?
(a) His sixteen-year-old son.
(b) His home.
(c) The corpse on his property.
(d) His girlfriend.

15. On first glance, what does Jacobus think about Solomon?
(a) He is sick.
(b) He has run away.
(c) He is dead.
(d) He is stealing from Mehring.

Short Answer Questions

1. From where does Mehring return?

2. How does Mehring's farm look?

3. How do the police handle problems in the shantytowns?

4. What do the bad spirits haunt?

5. What does Mehring think he should do but know he will not do?

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