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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What type of war is the best for a writer?

3. What makes the nasty stink in the forest?

4. Whose gun can Droopy not shoot?

5. What does Hemingway suggest is wrong with Kandisky's broken down car?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What affect does this new camp have on author and Karl?

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

7. How successful is their search?

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

9. What is the significance of Tolstoy on this trip?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does Hemingway's failure to get a sable bull symbolize? What does it say about Hemingway's character that he vows to return?

Essay Topic 2

Choose two of the following characters and discuss how the narrative would be affected if they were left out.

1. Pop.

2. M'cola.

3. P.O.M.

Essay Topic 3

How reliable is Hemingway's narration? Choose another character and discuss how the story would change if seen through that character's eyes?

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