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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Where do most hippopotamus attacks occur?
(a) In long grass
(b) On water
(c) In villages
(d) In isolated jungle
2. What is the last thing Mason and Capstick see of the local woman before the crocodile drags her under the water?
(a) Her hair
(b) Her head
(c) Her feet
(d) Her hand
3. Which of the following reasons does Capstick give for the hippo's decline?
(a) Their tempers
(b) The lack care of their young
(c) Unnatural habitat
(d) Their indifference to mating
4. Which of the following snakes is aboreal?
(a) Boomslang
(b) Cobra
(c) Puff adder
(d) Ringhals
5. What part of a black mamba is black?
(a) Its fangs
(b) Its mouth
(c) Its head
(d) Its tail
6. Which of Capstick's friends shot at a snake inside his house?
(a) James Leroy Brown
(b) Gordon James
(c) John Gordon
(d) Peter Seymour Smith
7. What kind of animal drags the woman into the water?
(a) An alligator
(b) A rhino
(c) A crocodile
(d) A hippo
8. What was the snake's tail pinned down by?
(a) A rock
(b) A spear
(c) A car tire
(d) Seymour's foot
9. What does Capstick think hunters should provoke before killing a hippo?
(a) Thirst
(b) A charge
(c) A dominance battle
(d) Hunger
10. What does Capstick compare missing a hippo at six feet to?
(a) Missing a barn
(b) Missing an elephant
(c) Missing your wife's birthday
(d) Missing a late breakfast
11. Who replaces Silent on the hunt?
(a) Invisible
(b) David
(c) Charlie
(d) Rogets
12. Where do hunters tend to shoot hippos to kill them?
(a) The buttocks
(b) The heart
(c) The liver
(d) The brain
13. What does Capstick say costs $30,000?
(a) A hippo license
(b) A safari jeep
(c) An elephant gun
(d) A rhinoceros license
14. What does a common myth say a crocodile uses to knock its victim into the water?
(a) Its tail
(b) Its snout
(c) Its tongue
(d) It feet
15. How do python's kill their prey?
(a) Spit at them
(b) Strike them with their tail
(c) Strangle them
(d) Bite them
Short Answer Questions
1. What is a rhino's philosophy?
2. What kind of snake is a black mamba?
3. What does Capstick leave the restroom to retrieve?
4. Who did William K. Olsen volunteer for?
5. What are hippos likely to attack?
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