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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. Which of the following statements best describes the lioness Muffin and Moffet tried to court?
(a) She was a barren female.
(b) She was a nomadic female.
(c) She was a dominant female.
(d) She was a weak female.

2. Where did Bergie Berghoffer's daughter want her father's ashes scattered?
(a) In the ocean.
(b) In the cemetary.
(c) In the hills.
(d) In the mountains.

3. During the hot, dry season of 1979, how hot did the riverbed get during the daytime?
(a) 130 degrees.
(b) 90 degrees.
(c) 110 degrees.
(d) 150 degrees.

4. Which of the following did NOT contribute to the deaths of the wildebeest during their migration?
(a) Disease.
(b) Scarcity of food.
(c) The heat.
(d) Poachers.

5. What luxury did the Owens indulge in during their stay at the Paul's cottage?
(a) A safari trip.
(b) Expensive oysters..
(c) Champagne.
(d) A nice bed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following lionesses became nomadic during the dry season of 1979?

2. During the dry season of 1977, which of the following did not take place?

3. Who brought food to Star's pups after her death?

4. To which of the following stones did Mark compare the tens of thousands of wildebeest making their migration in 1979?

5. What did the Owens hope to learn about the brown hyenas when they tagged them?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did feeding life for the lions change in the dry season of 1977?

2. Why did the Owens particularly enjoy their stay at the Buffalo Cottage?

3. What condition was Blue in at the time when the Owens first found her?

4. How many wildebeest died during their migration, and how?

5. How did Mark manage to purchase an airplane for his research?

6. How did the airplane help improve Mark and Delia's research of the lions in the Kalahari?

7. What was Satan, and how did he die?

8. Who eats first in a pride of lions?

9. Who was Mox?

10. Why did the Owens find it necessary to tag the gang of brown hyenas that lived near their camp?

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