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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What idea does Denys Finch Hatton have for hunting?
(a) To hunt game from an airplane.
(b) To scout elephants by plane.
(c) To scare competing hunting parties' game away using an airplane.
(d) To herd game using a plane.

2. When does Beryl have the saddest tone in the final chapter?
(a) When she discusses the changes in Africa.
(b) When she reflects that she was never close to her mother.
(c) When she thinks about the deaths of her friends.
(d) When there is a change in her relationship with her father.

3. What does Beryl learn about the woman whom she helps make dinner in Benghazi?
(a) She has syphilis.
(b) She is an indentured servant and still has many years left on her contract.
(c) She was stolen as a young child and would like to return to her country.
(d) She is trying to support seven children.

4. Where does Tom Black move to after he leaves British East Africa?
(a) Egypt.
(b) Peru.
(c) England.
(d) Ireland.

5. What prediction does Beryl receive from a customs official?
(a) Her plane will crash.
(b) That she will receive a gift.
(c) That she will be reacquainted with an old friend.
(d) She will fly over water to a strange country.

6. Who teaches Beryl how to fly?
(a) Denys Finch Hatton.
(b) Blix.
(c) Tom Black.
(d) Woody

7. What does Blix want Beryl to bring with her after she takes Winston back to camp?
(a) Food for the porters.
(b) A change of clothes.
(c) Water.
(d) A first aid kit.

8. From whom does Beryl receive a telegram after she receives the letter from Tom Black?
(a) Lord Delemere.
(b) J.C. Carberry.
(c) Baron von Blixen.
(d) C.B. Clutterbuck.

9. What happens to the companion of the passenger in the plane that lands in Nairobi?
(a) He is honored as a hero.
(b) He is injured and rides to Nairobi in another plane.
(c) He is convicted of a crime.
(d) He dies.

10. What happens to the plane on one of the scouting flights Beryl takes with her flight instructor?
(a) The engine stops.
(b) Beryl cannot get the plane to gain altitude.
(c) The radio does not work.
(d) The fuel gauge stops working.

11. Who is supportive of the decision that Beryl makes in Nairobi?
(a) Arab Ruta.
(b) Lady Delamere.
(c) Arab Kosky.
(d) Karen Blixen.

12. Who leaves Beryl and Blix when they are examining the elephants they have found?
(a) Ruta.
(b) Bishon Singh.
(c) Kosky.
(d) Makula.

13. Why does Blix's hunting party want to set up a camp at Ithumba?
(a) Because there is a large water hole there.
(b) Because the elephants are migrating into the area.
(c) Because another hunting party had shot a large elephant there the week before.
(d) Because a large bull elephant was sighted there.

14. Where are Beryl and Blix grounded on their transcontinental flight?
(a) Algiers.
(b) Cairo.
(c) Khartoum.
(d) Addis Ababa.

15. What happens to Beryl's plane after her transatlantic flight?
(a) It is placed in a museum.
(b) It is placed in the town square where she was born.
(c) It is used for scrap metal in World War Two.
(d) J.C. Carberry sells it to a man who lets it deteriorate.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Beryl the night before the Saint Leger race?

2. What happens after Beryl and Blix land in Amseat?

3. Why is Beryl concerned about Wise Child?

4. Who does Beryl ask to come with her when she decides to move?

5. What happens when Beryl lands on the airstrip trying to retrieve Blix and Winston?

(see the answer keys)

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