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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 do the poor people that travelling westward wear?
(a) Umbrellas.
(b) Quivers of arrows.
(c) A greasy cloth knotted over one shoulder.
(d) Draped white cloth.

2. What is the biggest hazard for Hemingway when shooting large animals?
(a) His unsteadiness after a climb.
(b) Not knowing where to shoot them.
(c) His glasses fogging up.
(d) Too many handkerchiefs weighing his pockets down.

3. What are the big native dance festivals also called?
(a) Rhodesias.
(b) Ngomas.
(c) Hapanas.
(d) Handenis.

4. What type of hat is Hemingway wearing?
(a) A Tyrolese.
(b) A Stetson.
(c) A fedora.
(d) He is not wearing a hat.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Hemingway worried about the 17th February?

2. At what distance did Hemingway shoot the larger bull?

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

4. Who does everyone believe shot the first Lion?

5. What does it mean when a tracker says Kufa?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does the author initially react to seeing the new hunting country Droopy guides them to?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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