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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 does Capstick say one crocodile continued to do even after he had shot it in the head?
(a) Snap its jaws
(b) Eat its victim
(c) Swim around
(d) Yawn

2. What is pursuing the female rhino through the camp?
(a) A leopard
(b) A lioness
(c) Two male rhinos
(d) A hippo

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Capstick say killing a hippo can lead to?

3. What does Capstick go into his hut to retrieve?

4. What animal corpses do Capstick and Mason bait locations with to catch the crocodiles?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Alan Root describe in his article?

2. What does Capstick state has led to the rhincerosi decline?

3. Why is the rhinoceros so dangerous?

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

5. Describe the different varieties of mamba snakes.

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

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

8. Describe crocodiles.

9. What does Capstick do when he finds a large black mamba in the restroom?

10. Where does Charlie disappear to in Chapter 7?

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