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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does Capstick use to describe a buffalo's sense of smell?

2. What does a leopard use to disembowel its victim?

3. What is the L Africana also known as?

4. Where was the elephant ivory and leather auctioned?

5. Where do Armando and Capstick find the leopard?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what two ways do elephants kill humans?

2. Describe elephant ivory tusks.

3. How do Willy and Colin eventually kill the lion?

4. How does July's only surviving son disappear?

5. How do Antonio and Capstick kill the elephant in Chapter 2?

6. How does the cape buffalo kill the local man in Chapter 4?

7. What is the story of the Rudraprayag leopard?

8. Why does Capstick think elephants are misrepresented in the media?

9. How does Len Harvey get into a fight with a lioness in Chapter 1?

10. How do the hunters kill the lioness which eats Hankin?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one of the following animals from the text--leopard, lion, snake and crocodile--and examine it in relation to its:

1) Hunting skills

2) Habitat

3) Methods it uses to kill its prey

Essay Topic 2

Discuss differences between the novel and autobiography formats. What are the main elements of a novel? What are the main elements of an autobiography? What can novelists express that an autobiographer cannot? How can autobiographies keep to the facts while still maintaining a level of entertainment?

Essay Topic 3

Examine the lioness' attack on Len and Jean Harvey. Why do you think the lioness attacks the couple? What effect could such a negative representation of lions have the reader impressions about the animal?

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