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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is it that confirms that Hemingway successfully shot the rhino?
(a) The rhino barks really loudly.
(b) The rhino is suddenly quiet.
(c) They heard the noise of the bullet hitting the rhinos hide.
(d) They find fresh blood on a grass blade.

2. Where are writers forged?
(a) At the library.
(b) In university.
(c) In injustice.
(d) In the blacksmith.

3. 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.

4. Where would you go for big rhino?
(a) The Rift Valley.
(b) Mount Kenya.
(c) Handeni country.
(d) Lake Manyara.

5. What abbreviated name does Hemingway call his father?
(a) The P.O.P.
(b) Mr. J.P.
(c) Mr P.O.M.
(d) The P.O.M.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Hemingway remember hunting on the Eve of St. Batholomew?

3. Why are Spanish shooting boots unsuitable for climbing down steep hills?

4. Whose shot actually kills the first Lion?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What causes the hunting party to hunt so unusually long into the day?

2. What is Karl's mood when the party encounters him again?

3. How does the author manage to detect the rhino before his trackers do?

4. What effect does this camp in the hunt for kudu?

5. What effect does the group's lion hunt have on the hunting party?

6. What happens when the author returns to camp with his rhino?

7. What affect does this new camp have on author and Karl?

8. How does the author, Pop and Mama initially react to the shooting of the first rhino?

9. What is Hemingway's relationship with M'cola like?

10. How do the author and Karl finally bag their oryx?

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