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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4, Chapter 23, West with the Night.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Beryl eighteen months after she begins flying lessons?
(a) She receives her B license.
(b) She has to stop taking lessons to attend to her ailing father.
(c) Beryl makes a solo flight to Uganda.
(d) She fails her exam and has to retake her lessons.

2. What kind of plane does Woody fly?
(a) A Grumman G-21 Goose.
(b) A Salmson 2A2.
(c) A German Klemm monoplane.
(d) A Piper Cub.

3. What feat gives Beryl Markham celebrity status?
(a) Serving as a pilot in World War One.
(b) Flying from east to west across the Atlantic Ocean.
(c) Starring in a motion picture.
(d) Being a best-selling author.

4. Who is Kibii?
(a) A Kikuyu tribesman.
(b) A stable boy on Beryl's father's farm.
(c) One of the Elkington's farm hands.
(d) Arab Maina's son.

5. Why did Blix refrain from shooting the elephant that he and Beryl had scouted?
(a) It was not very sportsmanlike.
(b) Because it is for his client.
(c) The elephant is too close to get a good shot.
(d) Because he is too frightened.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Beryl notice when scouting elephants?

2. Why does Beryl fulfill Ebert's promise to the man with Blackwater at Nungwe?

3. Where does the idea for a transatlantic flight begin?

4. Where is Rothschild's camp?

5. Why does Tom Black give Beryl the advise in the letter he writes to her?

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