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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does David think is wrong with Catherine?
(a) She has a tumor.
(b) She is drinking too much.
(c) She is pregnant.
(d) She is insane.

2. Why does Catherine say she owns the African stories?
(a) She edits them.
(b) She pays all the bills.
(c) She asks his permission to have them.
(d) She inspires them.

3. Who kills the bull elephant?
(a) Kibo.
(b) Davy's father.
(c) Juma.
(d) Davy.

4. What does Marita tell David to comfort him after his stories are burned?
(a) She will never leave him.
(b) Catherine will come back.
(c) He can rewrite the stories.
(d) She will help him transcribe the work.

5. Who killed the female elephant years before the bull elephant was spotted?
(a) Davy's father.
(b) Juma.
(c) Davy's uncle.
(d) A poacher.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Catherine say she will find an artist for the long narrative?

2. What does David call he and Marita on the first day he tries to write after his stories have been burned?

3. What feeling does David want included in the elephant story?

4. Where does Catherine say Marita wants to go in Chapter 17?

5. What does David do after Catherine leaves after burning the stories?

Short Essay Questions

1. About what does Marita wonder in Chapter 28?

2. What does Catherine say about the long manuscript in Chapter 23?

3. What does Catherine ask David to do after he writes the part about Davy on the hunt, and what is his response?

4. How does Davy feel when he is shown the skeleton of the female elephant?

5. What is different when David wakes up in the last chapter?

6. What does Davy think as the elephant dies?

7. What does David want to talk to his father about, and why?

8. What happens to David as he writes his short story about Africa?

9. What does Catherine say to David about his clippings when they are on the beach, and what has she done with them?

10. What does Catherine do while David and Marita are swimming alone in the cove after David's first short story has been completed?

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