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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 are they travelling away from?
(a) The rains from the south.
(b) The famine.
(c) A stampede of kudu bulls.
(d) The heat.

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

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

4. Who does M'Cola consider the old men in the party?
(a) The P.O.M. and Pop.
(b) Hemingway and himself.
(c) Himself and Charo.
(d) Pop and Hemingway.

5. What does M'Cola think is the funniest joke of them all?
(a) Shooting a hyena.
(b) Eating a hyena.
(c) Shooting a guinea.
(d) Eating a guinea.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the biggest hazard for Hemingway when shooting large animals?

2. Who should not have come in search of the wounded buffalo?

3. Why were the trees at the edge of Droopy's country girdled?

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5. Who was considered by Hemingway to be the best hunter?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the author surprised by the original wounded buffalo?

2. Why does the author have tension with M'cola?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What is Hemingway's opinion of American writing?

9. What reason does Droopy give for stopping Hemingway shooting the rhino?

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

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