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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Beryl's dog survive when Beryl was a child?
(a) A mass cell tumor.
(b) A mauling from a leopard.
(c) Getting snared in a trap.
(d) Being accidentally shot by a hunting party.

2. What do Beryl and Ebert do after she drops off the oxygen at Nungwe?
(a) They make repairs to Beryl's plane.
(b) They have tea together.
(c) They tend to the dying man.
(d) Ebert gives her a tour.

3. Why does Beryl fly to Rothschild's camp?
(a) To get something to eat.
(b) To ask if anyone has seen Woody.
(c) Because it was on Woody's flight plan.
(d) To refuel her plane.

4. What happens to Arab Kosky after he traps a warthog in a hole?
(a) The warthog runs out of the hole and cuts him in the leg.
(b) He crawls in after the hog and it charges and cuts Arab Kosky's arm.
(c) He falls into another hole and breaks his leg.
(d) He is busy looking into the hole and he is attacked by a leopard.

5. Where do Beryl and her dog go during an instance that she recalls from her childhood?
(a) To the village of the Murani people.
(b) To a river.
(c) To a nearby town.
(d) To the Delamere's ranch.

6. What does Kibii not like attending?
(a) Hunting rituals.
(b) English colonists's teas.
(c) Parties and dances.
(d) Church services.

7. Where did Beryl Markham grow up?
(a) In a small village.
(b) In a tribal community.
(c) In a city.
(d) On a farm.

8. What does Beryl see while flying over an area a second time while searching for Woody?
(a) A heard of wildebeast.
(b) Woody's plane.
(c) A bushfire.
(d) A tribe of Masai.

9. What does Beryl think about when leaving the farm on horseback?
(a) About what will happen to her.
(b) About her mother.
(c) About having to kill the baboon her father had befriended during her childhood.
(d) About about her childhood friends.

10. What kind of plane does Woody fly?
(a) A Grumman G-21 Goose.
(b) A Salmson 2A2.
(c) A Piper Cub.
(d) A German Klemm monoplane.

11. What does Beryl need to bring on her emergency mission to Nungwe?
(a) First aid supplies.
(b) Fuel.
(c) Food.
(d) Oxygen.

12. Why is the wind sock not helpful when Beryl lands at Nungwe?
(a) The sock is sewn shut.
(b) It is too dark to see the sock.
(c) The sock falls on the ground.
(d) The sock is hidden by some brush.

13. What does Beryl spot while searching for Woody?
(a) Any sign of Woody.
(b) A path where the grass has been bent down.
(c) Smoke.
(d) Movement.

14. What do Beryl and the man with the broken down car discuss?
(a) Horses.
(b) Traveling to Argentina.
(c) Airplanes.
(d) The weather.

15. Who owns the farm where there is a lion that is allowed to roam free?
(a) The Delameres.
(b) The Elkingtons.
(c) J.C. Carberry.
(d) C.B. Clutterbuck

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Beryl investigate while searching for Woody?

2. What was Beryl Markham's father's profession?

3. Where does Beryl see Carl Hastings many years after speaking with the man at Nungwe?

4. What does Carl Hastings tell Beryl about the bet with the dying man at Nungwe?

5. Who arrives at Beryl's door in Molo to assist her with her need?

(see the answer keys)

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