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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the puff adder seek the heat of at night?
(a) Clothes
(b) Fires
(c) Tents
(d) Footpaths

2. What does Capstick leave the restroom to retrieve?
(a) His shotgun
(b) His glasses
(c) His pistol
(d) His hunting knife

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

4. What did Hunter consider hippos to be?
(a) A friend
(b) Easy to hunt
(c) A sacred animal
(d) Dangerous to hunt

5. Why do hunters prize a rhino's horn so highly?
(a) They are very rare
(b) They contain oil
(c) Westerners buy them
(d) It posesses aphrodisiac qualities

6. What kind of animal drags the woman into the water?
(a) An alligator
(b) A rhino
(c) A hippo
(d) A crocodile

7. Which of the following snakes is a mamba snake?
(a) Purple mamba
(b) Grey mamba
(c) Green mamba
(d) Yellow mamba

8. Where does Capstick find a black mamba?
(a) The garbage
(b) His bedroom
(c) A river bank
(d) A restroom

9. Why are women often a crocodile's most common victim?
(a) They are tastier
(b) They spend time at the water's edge
(c) They wear less clothing
(d) They are easier to digest

10. What is on the arm that identifies it as the local woman's?
(a) A bracelet
(b) A wedding ring
(c) A scar
(d) A tattoo

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

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

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

14. What do they find in the crocodile's stomach?
(a) A human arm
(b) An elephant head
(c) A baby monkey
(d) A human head

15. What is the name of the Kenyan photographer in this chapter?
(a) Alan Root
(b) David Peace
(c) Lottie Regan
(d) Johnny Treetop

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What part of Joan's body does the hippo bite?

4. What is the real name of the buffalo thorn tree?

5. What kind of tree does Charlie climb?

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