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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the rhino appear so red?
(a) The color of the dusk sun.
(b) The rhinos are angry.
(c) The hunting glasses are tinted red.
(d) From rolling in the mud.

2. What does M'Cola think is the funniest joke of them all?
(a) Eating a guinea.
(b) Eating a hyena.
(c) Shooting a hyena.
(d) Shooting a guinea.

3. Who does Pop think is better off hunting by himself?
(a) Mama.
(b) Karl.
(c) Droopy.
(d) Hemingway.

4. What does Abdullah do to the guineas that Hemingway shoots down to make them legal to eat?
(a) Cut their wings off.
(b) Cut their heads off.
(c) Cut their beaks off.
(d) Cut their feet off.

5. What color is an old buffalo bull?
(a) Black.
(b) Grey.
(c) Green.
(d) Brown.

6. Who was M'Cola's favourite until their licence ran out?
(a) No one.
(b) Karl.
(c) Hemingway.
(d) Mama.

7. What is the biggest hazard for Hemingway when shooting large animals?
(a) Too many handkerchiefs weighing his pockets down.
(b) His unsteadiness after a climb.
(c) Not knowing where to shoot them.
(d) His glasses fogging up.

8. Who does M'Cola consider the old men in the party?
(a) The P.O.M. and Pop.
(b) Hemingway and himself.
(c) Himself and Charo.
(d) Pop and Hemingway.

9. What is it that Hemingway thinks makes him unhappy?
(a) That he has been very lucky.
(b) Being in the Prado.
(c) Doing nothing for other people.
(d) When he thinks of other people.

10. What does Hemingway's wife think Von Lettow is bitter about?
(a) The East Indians.
(b) American women.
(c) The natives.
(d) The Aga Khan.

11. Who never swallows his saliva until sunset during Ramadan?
(a) M'cola.
(b) Mohammed.
(c) The Memsahib.
(d) Charo.

12. Why does Hemingway not shoot the kuro in his sights?
(a) The meat is worthless and he already has the head.
(b) Droopy tells him not to.
(c) He already has the head and it doesn't impress him.
(d) He has already shot too many.

13. Whose gun can Droopy not shoot?
(a) Mama's Mannlicher.
(b) Pop's Mannlicher.
(c) Pop's four-fifty two.
(d) Hemingway's four-seventy.

14. What nationality is Kandisky?
(a) He is bloody English.
(b) He is South African.
(c) He is Swahili.
(d) He is Austrian.

15. Why are Spanish shooting boots unsuitable for climbing down steep hills?
(a) The heel is weak and cracks easily.
(b) The sole is too thin making them uncomfortable.
(c) They are made of soft hide that tears.
(d) They are too short in the toe.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Pop able to shoot elephants in high grass?

2. How does Karl's rhino compare to Hemingway's?

3. Who was the only person happy for Karl?

4. What are Nyati?

5. Who does Kandisky look like a caricature of?

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