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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 is the single thing that lasts?
(a) The clear and blue coast.
(b) The stream.
(c) Empty condoms of our great loves.
(d) Worn light bulbs of our discoveries.

2. Where on the first kudu is there a white chevron?
(a) Between its eyes.
(b) At the tip of its muzzle.
(c) Between its ears.
(d) On its long legs.

3. Why do they not shoot the enormous manamouki kudu they find?
(a) It is actually a cow.
(b) It is too big for them to kill.
(c) They cannot keep up with it.
(d) It has not yet grown into a doumi.

4. What is the only difference between Galicia and Handeni?
(a) The buildings.
(b) The limestone outcropping.
(c) The camel flies.
(d) The famine.

5. Who is as accurate as an historian?
(a) A history student.
(b) A well-inflated dog.
(c) A garbage picker.
(d) Columbus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hemingway believe has scared away the kudu?

2. What denotes extreme emotion in the Masai handshake?

3. What do you have to take your shirt off to kill?

4. Where is the new country they head to in search of unsophisticated kudu?

5. Which name does the hunting party find irritating?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Karl end up with the right to hunt the salt lick?

2. How does discovery of the slain kudu surprise the author?

3. Does Pop's earlier advice have any effect on the hunt?

4. How is the author affected by his confrontation with Karl?

5. What is the significance of the overnight rain?

6. How does the presence of Garrick affect the hunt?

7. Why does The Roman's brother join the author's hunting party?

8. What breaks the author's resolve to pursue the second sable bull?

9. How is the author's confidence affected by his successful kudu hunt?

10. What is the significance of the arrival of the elderly native hunter?

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