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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the passenger in the plane that lands in Nairobi sustain his injuries?
(a) He stops to photograph a lion after he and his companions had shot it.
(b) He gets his foot stuck between two rocks before the dynamite explosion.
(c) He gets into a fight with a Massai.
(d) The supports fail in a mine where the man is working.

2. How does Beryl get Makula to fly in her plane?
(a) She does some guided visual imagery with him prior to the takeoff.
(b) She coaxes him.
(c) She threatens him.
(d) Makula flies the whole distance with a blanket over his head.

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

4. What does Beryl learn about her feat when she returns to London?
(a) She broke an aviation record.
(b) She is a celebrity.
(c) No one knows about her flight.
(d) Someone else had taken the flight a week before she did.

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

6. What does Beryl find when she arrives at Ithumba?
(a) The hunting party has killed a lot of game.
(b) The hunting party has not arrived.
(c) The hunting party is drunk.
(d) The camp has been ransacked.

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

8. What are Beryl and Blix looking for when out on an elephant scouting mission for a client?
(a) Elephants within walking distance from camp.
(b) Male elephants with big tusks.
(c) A large herd of elephants.
(d) A place near a water hole.

9. Why does Tom Black give Beryl the advise in the letter he writes to her?
(a) She could crash or be stranded.
(b) It is a more secure future.
(c) There is great unrest among the natives.
(d) It is not very profitable.

10. What is Tom Black's advise in a letter he writes to Beryl?
(a) To leave British East Africa.
(b) Do not scout elephants from the air.
(c) To stop training horses.
(d) To purchase a tea plantation.

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

12. With whom does Beryl share her accomplishment?
(a) Lord Delamere.
(b) Ruta.
(c) Her father.
(d) Tom Black.

13. How does Wise Child do in the Saint Leger race?
(a) She wins.
(b) She comes in last.
(c) She comes in fourth.
(d) She takes second in the final stretch.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Blix want Beryl to bring with her after she takes Winston back to camp?

2. What happens when Winston eventually kills the elephant found by Beryl and Blix?

3. Why does Beryl think it is crazy for men to hunt elephants?

4. What happens on the flight Beryl is supposed to take with Denys Finch Hatton?

5. Which is NOT an item given to Beryl for her historic flight?

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