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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do they send Karl down to sable country?
(a) The hunting party find him annoying.
(b) His kudu is ugly.
(c) There are no kudu left.
(d) He is the first to shoot a kudu.

2. What is the only difference between Galicia and Handeni?
(a) The buildings.
(b) The limestone outcropping.
(c) The famine.
(d) The camel flies.

3. Why do animals on a plain feed differently from those in the woods?
(a) It is easier to hide in the woods.
(b) They can see further.
(c) They cannot find shelter on a plain.
(d) Food is more abundant in the woods.

4. What does a principal Somali cattle buyer carry?
(a) A Tyrolese hat.
(b) Spears decorated with feathers.
(c) An orchard bush.
(d) An umbrella.

5. Who is becoming increasingly obsessed with finding kudu?
(a) Pop.
(b) Karl.
(c) M'Cola.
(d) Hemingway.

6. Where is the first camp they had in Africa located?
(a) Kalal.
(b) Lake Manyara.
(c) Maji-Moto.
(d) M'utu-Umbu.

7. Why is Hemingway so against making camp where The Roman suggests?
(a) There is no fence to protect them.
(b) He is scared of bugs.
(c) He doesn't trust The Roman.
(d) The area if full of chickens.

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

9. How does the larger kudu bull killed by Hemingway compare to Karl's?
(a) Thrice as big.
(b) The same size.
(c) Smaller but a more beautiful specimen.
(d) Twice as big.

10. Why do M'Cola and Hemingway decide to turn back?
(a) They have run out of ammunition.
(b) They are worried about the P.O.M.
(c) It is getting too dark.
(d) Hemingway cannot call the shot.

11. What is a panga?
(a) A double-bitted axe.
(b) A beaver dam.
(c) A wet track.
(d) A long knife to cut brush with.

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

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

14. Who writes the best Safari book?
(a) Garrick.
(b) Karl.
(c) Hemingway.
(d) Streeter.

15. What is a Kidogo?
(a) The trail of blood left by a wounded animal.
(b) A female kudu.
(c) The perfect one shot kill.
(d) A great kudu bull.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Hemingway's tribe always shoot twice?

2. What does Hemingway's tribe do with oryx horns?

3. Why are the elephant down south so big?

4. What did Hemingway's lucky shot do to the oryx?

5. What happened to Dan at Kibaya?

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