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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reason does Capstick give for killing hippos?
(a) Self defense
(b) Boredom
(c) Hunger
(d) Sporting trophies

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

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

4. How do python's kill their prey?
(a) Strangle them
(b) Bite them
(c) Spit at them
(d) Strike them with their tail

5. What does Capstick go into his hut to retrieve?
(a) A gun
(b) A knife
(c) Binoculars
(d) A flashlight

6. What is the last thing Mason and Capstick see of the local woman before the crocodile drags her under the water?
(a) Her hand
(b) Her feet
(c) Her hair
(d) Her head

7. What is the name of the local assistant?
(a) Gordon
(b) Frankyn
(c) Martin
(d) John

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

9. What does Capstick say costs $30,000?
(a) A safari jeep
(b) A hippo license
(c) An elephant gun
(d) A rhinoceros license

10. What kind of battles do male hippos participate in?
(a) Dominance battles
(b) Death battles
(c) Championship bouts
(d) Play fights

11. Where do most hippopotamus attacks occur?
(a) In villages
(b) In isolated jungle
(c) On water
(d) In long grass

12. What kind of tree does Charlie climb?
(a) An oak tree
(b) A buffalo thorn tree
(c) A gum tree
(d) A horse chestnut tree

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the two primary species of rhino?

2. What were Dempster and his assistant returning home on?

3. What kind of eggs are Mason and Capstick eating for breakfast?

4. Why are women often a crocodile's most common victim?

5. What was J. A Hunter's job?

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