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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 have you got to be careful of when hunting sable bull?
(a) Watch out for him charging you.
(b) How you walk up to him.
(c) Nothing at all, they are just like kudu.
(d) Where you shoot him.

2. Who can tell the longest story?
(a) Karl.
(b) The Roman.
(c) Garrick.
(d) Carlos the Cuban.

3. What is a panga?
(a) A beaver dam.
(b) A wet track.
(c) A double-bitted axe.
(d) A long knife to cut brush with.

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

5. Why do M'Cola and Hemingway decide to turn back?
(a) They are worried about the P.O.M.
(b) Hemingway cannot call the shot.
(c) It is getting too dark.
(d) They have run out of ammunition.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do they not shoot the flock of fine guineas?

2. What impresses the Roman most about Hemingway's drinking?

3. What are the finest birds to eat?

4. What is a Kidogo?

5. Where was the last time they had ducks?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What effect does this realization have upon the author?

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

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

6. What causes the tense confrontation between Karl and the author?

7. How is The Roman able to assist the hunt?

8. How does the second sable bull elude the hunting party?

9. What does this new country reveal to the author?

10. How does the return of Karl with his first kudu affect the camp?

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