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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. How is Pop able to shoot elephants in high grass?
(a) He shoots into the grass randomly.
(b) He sets fire to the grass and scares them out.
(c) He can smell where they are.
(d) By climbing onto a person's shoulders.

2. Who is described as having thin Chinese hairs at the corners of his mouth?
(a) Kamau.
(b) Abdullah.
(c) Hemingway.
(d) M'Cola.

3. What makes the nasty stink in the forest?
(a) A wounded buffalo.
(b) Elephant manure.
(c) Old rhino.
(d) Baboon droppings.

4. Whose shot actually kills the first Lion?
(a) The P.O.M.
(b) M'cola.
(c) Hemingway.
(d) Charo.

5. What weapon is Hemingway using to hunt the greater kudu bulls?
(a) A pistol.
(b) A machete.
(c) A bow and arrow.
(d) A rifle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What task is Karl given to make him feel better?

2. What woman does Hemingway consider no longer beautiful?

3. Who does everyone believe shot the first Lion?

4. What shape are a Kudu Bull's tracks?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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