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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are women often a crocodile's most common victim?
(a) They wear less clothing
(b) They spend time at the water's edge
(c) They are tastier
(d) They are easier to digest

2. Who does the black mamba lunge at?
(a) Capstick
(b) Seymour's child
(c) Seymour's wife
(d) Seymour

3. What is pursuing the female rhino through the camp?
(a) A leopard
(b) A lioness
(c) A hippo
(d) Two male rhinos

4. What color are a black mamba's scales?
(a) Yellow
(b) Gray
(c) Green
(d) Black

5. Where do hunters tend to shoot hippos to kill them?
(a) The heart
(b) The liver
(c) The brain
(d) The buttocks

6. Who replaces Silent on the hunt?
(a) Invisible
(b) Charlie
(c) David
(d) Rogets

7. Which of the following characters is not able to swim?
(a) Joseph
(b) Albaan
(c) Dempster
(d) Silent

8. What does Capstick compare missing a hippo at six feet to?
(a) Missing an elephant
(b) Missing your wife's birthday
(c) Missing a late breakfast
(d) Missing a barn

9. What part of Joan's body does the hippo bite?
(a) Her arm
(b) Her buttocks
(c) Her face
(d) Her leg

10. What kind of snake is a black mamba?
(a) Ground dwelling
(b) Water
(c) Mountain
(d) Aboreal

11. What is the name of the Kenyan photographer in this chapter?
(a) Alan Root
(b) Lottie Regan
(c) David Peace
(d) Johnny Treetop

12. What was the snake's tail pinned down by?
(a) Seymour's foot
(b) A rock
(c) A car tire
(d) A spear

13. How did Changa save a client when a cobra spat in his eyes?
(a) Urinated in his eye
(b) Pried out his eye
(c) Poured river water into his eye
(d) Helped the man to hospital

14. What kind of animal drags the woman into the water?
(a) A hippo
(b) A crocodile
(c) An alligator
(d) A rhino

15. What does Capstick go into his hut to retrieve?
(a) Binoculars
(b) A flashlight
(c) A gun
(d) A knife

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Capstick say killing a hippo can lead to?

2. What kind of tree does Charlie climb?

3. How do python's kill their prey?

4. Which of the following reasons does Capstick give for the hippo's decline?

5. Which of the following snakes is a mamba snake?

(see the answer keys)

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