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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of snake is a black mamba?
(a) Water
(b) Ground dwelling
(c) Mountain
(d) Aboreal

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

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

4. What does the hippo use to scissor Root's flesh from the bone?
(a) Its nostrils
(b) Its horns
(c) Its hooves
(d) Its teeth

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of meat do Capstick and Mason eat for breakfast?

2. What does Charlie use to hack off the tree's thorns?

3. Where did Capstick's first shot hit the hippo?

4. How do python's kill their prey?

5. What kind of hippos are most likely to attack humans?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do crocodiles kill their prey?

2. What makes a crocodile attack so unnerving for observers?

3. What hippopotami are more likely to attack humans?

4. Where does Charlie disappear to in Chapter 7?

5. What snakes does Africa have?

6. When is a hippopotamus likely to attack?

7. What does the gunbearer, Chagga, do when a hunter receives a spurt of cobra venom in his eyes?

8. Where does Capstick eventually find the snake?

9. Describe how a hippopotamus attacked a native family in Chapter 5.

10. How does Capstick track down the crocodile in Chapter 6?

(see the answer keys)

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