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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When are you most likely to see a lot of snakes in Africa?
(a) July
(b) October
(c) November
(d) December

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

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

5. What is the real name of the buffalo thorn tree?
(a) An umphafa
(b) A hortice
(c) A horse chestnut
(d) A denzilea

6. What kind of meat do Capstick and Mason eat for breakfast?
(a) Kidney
(b) Liver
(c) Heart
(d) Tongue

7. Where do Capstick and his party hide when they hear a charging rhino?
(a) Behind a tree
(b) In a cave
(c) In long grass
(d) Behind a rock

8. What part of a black mamba is black?
(a) Its tail
(b) Its fangs
(c) Its head
(d) Its mouth

9. Who replaces Silent on the hunt?
(a) Invisible
(b) Charlie
(c) David
(d) Rogets

10. How did Changa save a client when a cobra spat in his eyes?
(a) Pried out his eye
(b) Urinated in his eye
(c) Poured river water into his eye
(d) Helped the man to hospital

11. What is the name of Root's cameraman?
(a) Gordon Formby
(b) David Tomms
(c) Martin Bell
(d) Peter Bell

12. What does Capstick compare missing a hippo at six feet to?
(a) Missing your wife's birthday
(b) Missing an elephant
(c) Missing a barn
(d) Missing a late breakfast

13. What animal charges at Capstick at the beginning of the chapter?
(a) Buffalo
(b) Hippopotamus
(c) Rhino
(d) Leopard

14. What was J. A Hunter's job?
(a) Lawyer
(b) Hunter
(c) Tracker
(d) Priest

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the puff adder seek the heat of at night?

2. What does Capstick say one crocodile continued to do even after he had shot it in the head?

3. Where is the black mamba hiding itself?

4. Why does Capstick give Rhinoceros hunting less attention than the other types of hunting in the book?

5. What does Capstick say costs $30,000?

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