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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Pop able to shoot elephants in high grass?
(a) By climbing onto a person's shoulders.
(b) He can smell where they are.
(c) He sets fire to the grass and scares them out.
(d) He shoots into the grass randomly.

2. How does Hemingway hand the Springfield to M'cola?
(a) He gives it to him boltless.
(b) With the safety off.
(c) It is thrown to him.
(d) Loaded with a round still in the chamber.

3. Why was Karl becoming so unhappy?
(a) The hunting party had forced him to go hunting for meat.
(b) Hemingway was stealing his kudu bull.
(c) He missed his shot on the roan antelope.
(d) He could not find any kudu bull to shoot.

4. Why do they believe the lousy old man has sighted kudu?
(a) He tells it very straight.
(b) He looks very reputable.
(c) They are drunk.
(d) Natives never lie.

5. What does Hemingway tell the hunting party every night?
(a) That he is a fine bird shot.
(b) That he hates riding in cars.
(c) That he is an awful tracker.
(d) That he loves getting drunk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of gun is Pop carrying?

2. Who is as accurate as an historian?

3. What causes the horizon to turn pink?

4. What is beautiful for a while but then goes bad?

5. The oryx are similar to what other animal?

(see the answer key)

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