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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first animal they see in this country?
(a) A flock of guinea fowl.
(b) Poor looking zebra.
(c) Herds of Kudu cows.
(d) A group of Grant's gazelles.

2. Where does Hemingway compare this new country to?
(a) Babati in Kenya.
(b) Aragon in Spain.
(c) Barcelona in Spain.
(d) Mount Kenya.

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

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

5. What poisons Hemingway's hunting plans?
(a) The presence of Garrick.
(b) Being hungover from whiskey.
(c) Not enough bullets.
(d) Drinking spoilt beer.

6. The gerenuk are similar to what insect?
(a) A dragonfly.
(b) A camel fly.
(c) Tsetse flies.
(d) Praying mantis.

7. Where is the new country they head to in search of unsophisticated kudu?
(a) M'Cola's country.
(b) Kondoa.
(c) Mount Kenya.
(d) Handeni.

8. What gift does the tallest Masai runner give them?
(a) A leather pouch filled with water.
(b) A lock of red-stained hair.
(c) A white rabbit.
(d) A feathered spear.

9. What is a shenzi?
(a) The hottest part of the day.
(b) A wild man.
(c) A bad salt lick.
(d) The command to shut someone up.

10. How does M'cola anger Hemingway?
(a) He doesn't talk to him enough.
(b) The Springfield is not cleaned properly.
(c) He wakes him up too early.
(d) His eagerness scares away the kudu.

11. What did Hemingway's lucky shot do to the oryx?
(a) Snapped its neck.
(b) Broke its leg.
(c) Killed the animal instantly.
(d) Went right between its eyes.

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

13. What is the single thing that lasts?
(a) The clear and blue coast.
(b) Worn light bulbs of our discoveries.
(c) The stream.
(d) Empty condoms of our great loves.

14. 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.

15. Which tracker would Hemingway like to shoot in the behind?
(a) M'Cola.
(b) Kamau the Kikuyu.
(c) Abdullah.
(d) The uneducated Garrick.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do you have to take your shirt off to kill?

2. What is the most obvious difference between male and female sable?

3. Why do they believe the lousy old man has sighted kudu?

4. Why do they send Karl down to sable country?

5. What impresses the Roman most about Hemingway's drinking?

(see the answer keys)

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