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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Mehring returns, what does he realize must remain?
(a) The debris in the yard.
(b) Some of his staffs' increased responsibilities.
(c) The new path of the river.
(d) Jacobus as a doctor.

2. What are the farmhands becoming on Christmas day?
(a) Religious.
(b) Caring.
(c) Drunk.
(d) Lazy.

3. Why are they so excited?
(a) They do not get much time off.
(b) There is plenty of beer.
(c) They love to dance.
(d) Meat is rare in the laborers' diet.

4. To what does Mehring compare getting his leg stuck, pulling to get it out, and then it just coming free?
(a) God having a hold on him.
(b) Someone holding his leg and just letting him go.
(c) His relationship with Antonia.
(d) His son's struggle to leave South Africa.

5. What does Mehring notice about awakening on the farm?
(a) He likes it better when Antonia is with him.
(b) How warm it has become.
(c) The sunshine is bright in his window.
(d) He feels more awake than at his apartment in the city.

6. What will Terry be missing by staying in the United States with his mother?
(a) The opportunity to take over the farm.
(b) College in South Africa.
(c) His father.
(d) Mandatory military service.

7. Why is Mehring upset with Terry?
(a) Terry does not have the nerve to tell him in person that he is staying in the United States.
(b) Terry will not take over the farm.
(c) Terry will no longer be near him.
(d) Terry moved to the United States.

8. What does Mehring notice about the orange river lilies?
(a) They are blooming in fiery splendor at the riverbank.
(b) They are growing where Solomon is found.
(c) They are not as plentiful as before the fire.
(d) They are the same color as Antonia's hair.

9. Why does Mehring ride in tourist class on a plane ride from Lisbon?
(a) He does not have the money to purchase a first class seat.
(b) There is no first class on the plane.
(c) He enjoys getting to know the locals.
(d) There is no room in first class.

10. What starts the rain storm?
(a) A cyclone.
(b) A cold front.
(c) A warm front.
(d) El Nino.

11. What does Solomon find at the celebration?
(a) His boss.
(b) The goat that was being used at the feast.
(c) His friends.
(d) The beer.

12. How does Jacobus act as doctor?
(a) He bandages all that are injured.
(b) He uses the correct hypodermic on a sick cow.
(c) He sets the broken arm of one of the fieldhands.
(d) He gives the right herbal remedy to a sick dog.

13. Why is Mehring easily able to make the issue with the young girl disappear?
(a) The girl's family are immigrants and do not want trouble.
(b) He is innocent.
(c) The girl's family is of a lower social class and therefore powerless.
(d) She did not complain.

14. What is a sign that winter is weakening?
(a) Birds are chirping.
(b) The river is no longer frozen.
(c) Mehring no longer needs his winter coat.
(d) There is a warm wind some afternoons.

15. Why can Mehring not get to the farm for two weeks?
(a) The roads are all impassable.
(b) He is helping those in trapped in the city.
(c) He must clean up his flooded apartment.
(d) He is injured during the flood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Izak playing loudly?

2. Over what does Mehring muse?

3. Why can no one find Mehring?

4. What does Mehring send Jacobus down to do?

5. What does Mehring find annoying about the Indians?

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