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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Hemingway compare this new country to?
(a) Mount Kenya.
(b) Barcelona in Spain.
(c) Babati in Kenya.
(d) Aragon in Spain.

2. Which name does the hunting party find irritating?
(a) B'wana Simba.
(b) B'wana Fisi.
(c) Mama Tziggi.
(d) B'wana Doktor.

3. What poisons Hemingway's hunting plans?
(a) Being hungover from whiskey.
(b) The presence of Garrick.
(c) Drinking spoilt beer.
(d) Not enough bullets.

4. Why was Karl becoming so unhappy?
(a) The hunting party had forced him to go hunting for meat.
(b) He could not find any kudu bull to shoot.
(c) Hemingway was stealing his kudu bull.
(d) He missed his shot on the roan antelope.

5. Where is the new country they head to in search of unsophisticated kudu?
(a) Kondoa.
(b) Mount Kenya.
(c) M'Cola's country.
(d) Handeni.

6. What is the only difference between Galicia and Handeni?
(a) The buildings.
(b) The camel flies.
(c) The famine.
(d) The limestone outcropping.

7. What does Hemingway believe has scared away the kudu?
(a) A shenzi.
(b) American women.
(c) The bad weather.
(d) The Austrian's lorry.

8. What will Karl always beat Hemingway at?
(a) Where there is luck involved.
(b) Catching birds.
(c) Bushbuck hunting.
(d) Impala hunting.

9. What headdress does Garrick wear to the annoyance of Hemingway?
(a) Black and white ostrich plume.
(b) Black kudu bull horns.
(c) Rose-colored flamingo plume.
(d) A hat made of locusts.

10. Which town is like a German garrison?
(a) Cairo Cape.
(b) Kandoa-Irangi.
(c) Steppes Masai.
(d) Pan-Yan.

11. Who is becoming increasingly obsessed with finding kudu?
(a) Hemingway.
(b) M'Cola.
(c) Karl.
(d) Pop.

12. What did Mama not know about Pop?
(a) He has traveled to Alaska.
(b) He is actually English.
(c) He once lived in Nairobi.
(d) He writes.

13. What causes the horizon to turn pink?
(a) Flamingos rising at the sound of shooting.
(b) Half a million hippo splashing in the water.
(c) The setting of the afternoon sun.
(d) Teal startled by the hunters.

14. What denotes extreme emotion in the Masai handshake?
(a) The pulling of the index finger.
(b) The pulling of the pinkie finger.
(c) The pulling of the thumb.
(d) The pulling of the middle finger.

15. Who is as accurate as an historian?
(a) A well-inflated dog.
(b) A garbage picker.
(c) Columbus.
(d) A history student.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the warthog so exciting?

2. Why does Garrick stay behind for the late afternoon hunt?

3. What do you have to take your shirt off to kill?

4. Where on the first kudu is there a white chevron?

5. What did Karl find on his rhino carcass the next morning?

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