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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hemingway's tribe do with oryx horns?
(a) Sells them to the highest bidder.
(b) Gives them to the local charity.
(c) Gives them to their wealthiest friends.
(d) Trades them for supplies.

2. Which item of Hemingway's clothing does M'cola take?
(a) His stetson hat.
(b) A corduroy sleeveless jacket.
(c) White khaki shorts.
(d) A quail-shooting coat.

3. Which animal moves like a rocking-horse?
(a) A kongoni.
(b) An oryx.
(c) An eland.
(d) A zebra.

4. Why are the elephant down south so big?
(a) They are too hard to hunt.
(b) The region is an elephant sanctuary.
(c) Only big elephants migrate there.
(d) Food is more plentiful.

5. What does P.O.M. get the men to talk about?
(a) Leather pants.
(b) World topics.
(c) More kudu hunting.
(d) The inadequacy of modern writers.

6. What is best to do in the morning before the sun comes out?
(a) Hunt sable.
(b) Drink whiskey.
(c) Hunt kudu bull.
(d) Drink chai tea.

7. What is Hemingway's Valhalla?
(a) Sable.
(b) Fear that he will not find kudu.
(c) The harsh hunting country of Tarahalla.
(d) A wet salt lick.

8. What is beautiful for a while but then goes bad?
(a) A revolution.
(b) Smoking a cuban cigar.
(c) Marriage to a Turkish wife.
(d) A French riot.

9. Where on the first kudu is there a white chevron?
(a) Between its eyes.
(b) On its long legs.
(c) Between its ears.
(d) At the tip of its muzzle.

10. What have you got to be careful of when hunting sable bull?
(a) Nothing at all, they are just like kudu.
(b) How you walk up to him.
(c) Watch out for him charging you.
(d) Where you shoot him.

11. Who rows with Hemingway while hunting zebra?
(a) M'Cola.
(b) Mama.
(c) Pop.
(d) Karl.

12. What causes the horizon to turn pink?
(a) Half a million hippo splashing in the water.
(b) Flamingos rising at the sound of shooting.
(c) The setting of the afternoon sun.
(d) Teal startled by the hunters.

13. What does Hemingway solemnly look at each morning?
(a) His own reflection.
(b) The Southern Cross.
(c) His wife's face.
(d) The rising sun.

14. Which town is like a German garrison?
(a) Cairo Cape.
(b) Pan-Yan.
(c) Steppes Masai.
(d) Kandoa-Irangi.

15. Which comedian's work does the hunting party compare to?
(a) Harold Lloyd..
(b) Abbot and Costello.
(c) Chaplin.
(d) Buster Keaton.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Garrick stay behind for the late afternoon hunt?

2. Why is the warthog so exciting?

3. What is the issue they have with Karl's first kudu bull?

4. Why is Hemingway so against making camp where The Roman suggests?

5. What is an askari?

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