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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who finds the group of eight buffalo?
(a) M'Cola.
(b) The local guide.
(c) Pop.
(d) Droopy.

2.
(a) She is the apple of his eye.
(b) She is too much trouble.
(c) It is his life's joy.
(d) It is like a second wife.

3. Who is the driver for Hemingway and his hunting party?
(a) Abdullah.
(b) M'Cola.
(c) Kamau.
(d) Hemingway.

4. Who is described as having thin Chinese hairs at the corners of his mouth?
(a) Kamau.
(b) Abdullah.
(c) M'Cola.
(d) Hemingway.

5. What did the thorn tree with yellow blossoms mark?
(a) The place they had seen the Rhino the night before.
(b) The spot where they had first seen the rhino come out.
(c) The spot where they had seen the rhino fighting.
(d) The place they had seen the rhino enter the forest.

6. What are they travelling away from?
(a) The heat.
(b) A stampede of kudu bulls.
(c) The famine.
(d) The rains from the south.

7. Which gun does Hemingway try to shoot the buffalo with?
(a) His heavy 470.
(b) The P.O.M.'s rifle.
(c) The Springfield.
(d) The Mannlicher.

8. What picture appears on the bottle of beer that they drink?
(a) A black rhino on a yellow label.
(b) A hunting cap.
(c) A horseman in armor.
(d) A yellow buffalo on a black label.

9. What does Hemingway remember hunting on the Eve of St. Batholomew?
(a) Huguenots.
(b) A Catholic priest.
(c) Mormans.
(d) Lutherans.

10. Why is Pop unsure whether or not Hemingway has shot the rhino?
(a) It was a very long shot.
(b) The rhino was too fast.
(c) Hemingway is a bad shot.
(d) He think's that Mama made the shot.

11. What does Hemingway say is more difficult than poetry?
(a) A prose that has been written too many times.
(b) A prose that has never been read.
(c) A prose that has never been written.
(d) Prose that is similar to poetry.

12. Who wrote The Cornet?
(a) Valery.
(b) Rilke.
(c) Heinrich Mann.
(d) Joachim Ringelnatz.

13. What is it that Hemingway thinks makes him unhappy?
(a) That he has been very lucky.
(b) Doing nothing for other people.
(c) When he thinks of other people.
(d) Being in the Prado.

14. What woman does Hemingway consider no longer beautiful?
(a) Garbo.
(b) Josie.
(c) Margot.
(d) The Memsahib.

15. What type of hat is Kandisky wearing when he first meets Hemingway?
(a) An army beret.
(b) A Tyrolese hat.
(c) A Swahili hunting cap.
(d) A tophat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What drink is the finest one there is?

2. What does it mean when a tracker says Kufa?

3. What allows Hemingway his strong sense of smell?

4. Where are writers forged?

5. What does Hemingway suggest is wrong with Kandisky's broken down car?

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