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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. Who was meant to wear the U.S. Army khaki tunic given away by Pop?
(a) Hemingway.
(b) Droopy.
(c) M'cola.
(d) Charo.

2. What did the thorn tree with yellow blossoms mark?
(a) The spot where they had first seen the rhino come out.
(b) The place they had seen the Rhino the night before.
(c) The spot where they had seen the rhino fighting.
(d) The place they had seen the rhino enter the forest.

3. What is it that Hemingway thinks makes him unhappy?
(a) Doing nothing for other people.
(b) That he has been very lucky.
(c) Being in the Prado.
(d) When he thinks of other people.

4. What noise spooks the hunting party as they search for the wounded buffalo?
(a) A rhino charging them from behind.
(b) Mama following them from behind.
(c) The wounded buffalo crashing through the high grass.
(d) A branch falling suddenly.

5. What gives away the exact position of the rhino?
(a) Tick birds flying from the spot.
(b) The sound of the rhino stamping its feet.
(c) The noise the rhino makes in its death throws.
(d) A trail of blood on the high grass.

Short Answer Questions

1. What drink does Hemingway carry in his flask?

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

3. What type of war is the best for a writer?

4. Whose gun can Droopy not shoot?

5. Who wrote The Cornet?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the author and his wife affected by the sound of the dying buffalo?

2. How does the author compare M'cola and Droopy?

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

4. What are the author's thoughts about Charo at this stage?

5. What happens when Kandinsky visits Hemingway's camp?

6. How does the Tolstoy book the author read affect him?

7. What does Kandinsky say to Hemingway when he first meets him?

8. Why does the author shoot his oryx without first consulting Karl?

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

10. When are Pop and Mama introduced?

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