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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 type of war is the best for a writer?

2. Why can the hunting party not get above ridges of hills as they hunt the rhino?

3. What is a Shamba?

4. What woman does Hemingway consider no longer beautiful?

5. What was Hemingway confident of when he used the 470?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. When are Pop and Mama introduced?

7. How successful is their search?

8. How does the Tolstoy book the author read affect him?

9. What reasons does Hemingway give for tracking the lion?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What was East Africa like in the Thirties for foreigners? How did this environment affect Hemingway? How does it affect the other characters? What impact does the climate have upon the narrative?

Essay Topic 2

How does Hemingway depict the natives in the book? How does today's society view Hemingway's depiction of the natives? Do you think his portrayal is accurate?

Essay Topic 3

Hemingway talks about living in Africa. Discuss his motivations. Why would he want to live there? What could stop him from living there successfully?

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