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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What do the farmhands do, regarding Solomon?
(a) Try to find Solomon.
(b) Try to piece together what happened to Solomon.
(c) Bury Solomon.
(d) Go after the men who hurt Solomon.
2. How long has there been a drought?
(a) Eight years.
(b) Six years.
(c) Four years.
(d) One year.
3. What does Jacobus pass out at the meeting with several laborers?
(a) Important contact information.
(b) Cigarettes.
(c) Pamphlets.
(d) Identification cards.
4. Who does Jacobus call as the men look on skeptically and somewhat fearfully?
(a) The police.
(b) Backup.
(c) Mehring at the farm.
(d) William at the Indian Store.
5. Why does Mehring have the farm?
(a) To help the local economy.
(b) To have a place where he can truly get away.
(c) He loves farming.
(d) To show off for his business associates.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who does Mehring hear in the other room as he is resting?
2. What does a fire that starts on De Beer's property also burn?
3. What makes the dust-filled air worse?
4. When Mehring roams his four-hundred-acre property, where does he always end up?
5. Who speaks of bad spirits?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Mehring think about as he is resting on the couch?
2. Mehring has many regrets. What three of them be?
3. What does Mehring believe is the cause for the fire?
4. Why does Solomon leave the compound?
5. What does Jacobus do when he finds a dead body? Where does he find it? What does Mehring do?
6. What do we learn about Mehring's family?
7. What do the police do once they are notified about the dead body?
8. How do the Indians feel about the police investigation?
9. What do the children say about the attack on Solomon?
10. What destruction has the fire caused?
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