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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Hemingway confident of when he used the 470?
(a) It would be relatively quiet.
(b) He would hit the target.
(c) Reloading it would be quick.
(d) It would be noisy.

2. Who does Hemingway's wife think is the greatest writer in America?
(a) Valery.
(b) Upton Sinclair.
(c) Hemingway.
(d) Sinclair Lewis.

3. What task is Karl given to make him feel better?
(a) He will now hunt the oryx.
(b) He is told to hunt kudu.
(c) He is told to hunt kongoni.
(d) He is told to hunt meat.

4. What picture appears on the bottle of beer that they drink?
(a) A black rhino on a yellow label.
(b) A yellow buffalo on a black label.
(c) A hunting cap.
(d) A horseman in armor.

5. What type of hat is Kandisky wearing when he first meets Hemingway?
(a) An army beret.
(b) A tophat.
(c) A Tyrolese hat.
(d) A Swahili hunting cap.

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

7. What do the poor people that travelling westward wear?
(a) Umbrellas.
(b) Quivers of arrows.
(c) Draped white cloth.
(d) A greasy cloth knotted over one shoulder.

8. What does Hemingway suggest is wrong with Kandisky's broken down car?
(a) A leaking radiator.
(b) The fuel pump is faulty.
(c) The engine has a timing knock.
(d) There is a loose fan belt.

9. What are Nyati?
(a) Buffalo.
(b) Elephants.
(c) Rhino.
(d) Tsetse flies.

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

11. What type of gun is Pop carrying?
(a) Hemingway's heavy gun.
(b) A Springfield.
(c) He isn't using a gun.
(d) A Mannlicher.

12. What does Hemingway believe scares away the greater kudu bulls and ruins the first hunt?
(a) A lesser kudu bull.
(b) The coming of the dusk.
(c) The motor-lorry.
(d) Their car waiting down the road.

13. How does Karl's rhino compare to Hemingway's?
(a) It is half the size.
(b) It is twice the age.
(c) It is twice the size.
(d) It is half the age.

14. What gives away the exact position of the rhino?
(a) The noise the rhino makes in its death throws.
(b) The sound of the rhino stamping its feet.
(c) Tick birds flying from the spot.
(d) A trail of blood on the high grass.

15. Who wrote The Cornet?
(a) Rilke.
(b) Valery.
(c) Heinrich Mann.
(d) Joachim Ringelnatz.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of war is the best for a writer?

2. Who was M'Cola's favourite until their licence ran out?

3. What did the thorn tree with yellow blossoms mark?

4. Who is the driver for Hemingway and his hunting party?

5. Why is Hemingway's hunting party finding it hard to feel happy for Karl's rhino?

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