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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 does Hemingway's wife think Von Lettow is bitter about?
(a) The East Indians.
(b) The Aga Khan.
(c) American women.
(d) The natives.

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

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

4. Who was the only person happy for Karl?
(a) The skinner.
(b) M'Cola.
(c) Karl himself.
(d) Dan.

5. Who does Hemingway's wife think is the greatest writer in America?
(a) Upton Sinclair.
(b) Sinclair Lewis.
(c) Valery.
(d) Hemingway.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does M'Cola consider the old men in the party?

2. What did the thorn tree with yellow blossoms mark?

3. What type of gun is Pop carrying?

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

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Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. When are Pop and Mama introduced?

8. Why do the author and Pop refuse their baths?

9. What opinions do the author, Pop and Mama reveal about Karl?

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

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