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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hemingway say is more difficult than poetry?
(a) A prose that has never been read.
(b) A prose that has been written too many times.
(c) A prose that has never been written.
(d) Prose that is similar to poetry.

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

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

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

5. Why were the trees at the edge of Droopy's country girdled?
(a) To attract the rhino.
(b) To scare off leopards.
(c) To welcome nearby hunters.
(d) To kill the tsetse flies.

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

7. How do Droopy and Hemingway transport the reedbuck's body back to camp?
(a) Droopy carries it all by himself.
(b) They carry it between them on a sling.
(c) They hang it in the crotch of a tree and call the porters.
(d) Hemingway carries it to build up his fitness.

8. What does it mean when a tracker says Kufa?
(a) Wounded.
(b) Dead.
(c) The shot missed.
(d) Alive.

9. What was Hemingway aiming for when he shot the reedbuck?
(a) The base of its skull.
(b) The centre of its chest.
(c) In between its eyes.
(d) The center of its shoulder.

10. Who finds the group of eight buffalo?
(a) The local guide.
(b) M'Cola.
(c) Droopy.
(d) Pop.

11. Why is Pop unsure whether or not Hemingway has shot the rhino?
(a) He think's that Mama made the shot.
(b) Hemingway is a bad shot.
(c) The rhino was too fast.
(d) It was a very long shot.

12. What drink is the finest one there is?
(a) The last round.
(b) The first one.
(c) The second one.
(d) No drink at all.

13. Why did they not attack the Rhino on first sight?
(a) The path to the Rhino was too wet and slippery.
(b) There were too many Rhino to aim at.
(c) A herd of buffalo was blocking their path.
(d) It was too dark to reach the Rhino in time for a shot.

14. What makes the nasty stink in the forest?
(a) A wounded buffalo.
(b) Baboon droppings.
(c) Old rhino.
(d) Elephant manure.

15. Why is Hemingway worried about the 17th February?
(a) It is his mother's birthday.
(b) That is when he finds out if his wife is pregnant.
(c) No hunting is allowed after that date.
(d) It is the last safe date to leave.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What drink does Hemingway carry in his flask?

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

4. What type of gun is Pop carrying?

5. What nickname does Hemingway use for his wife?

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