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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where do crocodiles catch their prey?
(a) At the water's edge
(b) In caves
(c) In bushes
(d) In the water

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

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

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

6. What is the local woman carrying to the riverside?
(a) A bird cage
(b) A bucket
(c) A fish trap
(d) A dead body

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

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

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

10. What kind of eggs are Mason and Capstick eating for breakfast?
(a) Boiled
(b) Poached
(c) Scrambled
(d) Fried

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

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

13. What word does Capstick use to describe most hippo hunting?
(a) Murder
(b) Boring
(c) Fun
(d) Execution

14. Which of Capstick's friends shot at a snake inside his house?
(a) James Leroy Brown
(b) John Gordon
(c) Gordon James
(d) Peter Seymour Smith

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What color are a black mamba's scales?

2. What kind of snake is a black mamba?

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

4. What does Capstick think hunters should provoke before killing a hippo?

5. When are you most likely to see a lot of snakes in Africa?

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