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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 is the name of the Kenyan photographer in this chapter?

2. What does the hippo use to scissor Root's flesh from the bone?

3. What kind of snake is a black mamba?

4. What animal charges at Capstick at the beginning of the chapter?

5. What part of a black mamba is black?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do crocodiles kill their prey?

2. What happens to the rhinoceros when Capstick shoots it in the base of its horn?

3. When is a hippopotamus likely to attack?

4. What does the gunbearer, Chagga, do when a hunter receives a spurt of cobra venom in his eyes?

5. Describe the crocodile attack on the woman in Chapter 6.

6. Describe the different varieties of mamba snakes.

7. What does Alan Root describe in his article?

8. Describe how a hippopotamus attacked a native family in Chapter 5.

9. Why does Capstick give rhinoceros hunting less attention than other forms of hunting in the book?

10. Describe crocodiles.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do elephants destroy the local environment and what does it cause both for the wildlife and humans? How can the authorities prevent elephants from destroying the wildlife?

Essay Topic 2

Choose one of the animals in the book and examine the myths surrounding that animal in popular culture. What myths are there? How did these myths develop? What is the truth behind the myth?

Essay Topic 3

Choose one of the following animals from the text--leopard, lion, snake and crocodile--and examine it in relation to its:

1) Hunting skills

2) Habitat

3) Methods it uses to kill its prey

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