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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Charlie use to hack off the tree's thorns?
(a) An ax
(b) A saw
(c) A hunting knife
(d) A machete

2. What were Dempster and his assistant returning home on?
(a) A canoe
(b) A watercraft
(c) A truck
(d) A jeep

3. Where do hunters tend to shoot hippos to kill them?
(a) The buttocks
(b) The heart
(c) The brain
(d) The liver

4. What does Castick say is the most dangerous snake in Africa?
(a) The puff adder
(b) The Boomslang
(c) The black mamba
(d) The cobra

5. Where did Capstick's first shot hit the hippo?
(a) The buttocks
(b) The brain
(c) The heart
(d) The spine

6. What kind of hippos are most likely to attack humans?
(a) Wounded hippos
(b) Tired hippos
(c) Female hippos
(d) Bored hippos

7. What animal corpses do Capstick and Mason bait locations with to catch the crocodiles?
(a) Rhinos
(b) Hippos
(c) Lions
(d) Leopards

8. How do crocodiles view humans?
(a) Easy targets
(b) Gourmet
(c) Another prey item
(d) Enemies

9. What happened to Capstick's second shot?
(a) It hit the hippo's teeth
(b) It missed
(c) It brushed the hippo's tail
(d) It hit the hippo in the eye

10. Who does the black mamba lunge at?
(a) Capstick
(b) Seymour's child
(c) Seymour's wife
(d) Seymour

11. What is a rhino's philosophy?
(a) If it moves, charge it
(b) Do nothing unless you have to
(c) If is breathes, eat it
(d) Eat, sleep and breathe

12. What is Silent sick with in this chapter?
(a) AIDS
(b) Malaria
(c) Cholera
(d) Cancer

13. What does Capstick think hunters should provoke before killing a hippo?
(a) Hunger
(b) A charge
(c) A dominance battle
(d) Thirst

14. What does Capstick say one crocodile continued to do even after he had shot it in the head?
(a) Eat its victim
(b) Yawn
(c) Snap its jaws
(d) Swim around

15. What part of Joan's body does the hippo bite?
(a) Her leg
(b) Her face
(c) Her buttocks
(d) Her arm

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Capstick compare missing a hippo at six feet to?

2. What part of a black mamba is black?

3. What kind of animal drags the woman into the water?

4. Where does Capstick find a black mamba?

5. What is pursuing the female rhino through the camp?

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