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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 Hemingway say is more difficult than poetry?
(a) Prose that is similar to poetry.
(b) A prose that has never been read.
(c) A prose that has been written too many times.
(d) A prose that has never been written.

2. Why can the hunting party not get above ridges of hills as they hunt the rhino?
(a) The rhino will spot them if they climb any higher.
(b) The easterly wind will blow their scent on ahead and warn the rhino.
(c) The westerly wind is blowing dust preventing them from seeing the rhino.
(d) The vantage point from the hills is too low.

3. What noise spooks the hunting party as they search for the wounded buffalo?
(a) A rhino charging them from behind.
(b) A branch falling suddenly.
(c) The wounded buffalo crashing through the high grass.
(d) Mama following them from behind.

4.
(a) It is his life's joy.
(b) It is like a second wife.
(c) She is the apple of his eye.
(d) She is too much trouble.

5. Where are writers forged?
(a) In injustice.
(b) In the blacksmith.
(c) In university.
(d) At the library.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of dog would the P.O.M. prefer to be?

2. What allows Hemingway his strong sense of smell?

3. What is it that confirms that Hemingway successfully shot the rhino?

4. What does Hemingway believe scares away the greater kudu bulls and ruins the first hunt?

5. Who does Kandisky look like a caricature of?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author initially react to seeing the new hunting country Droopy guides them to?

2. What is Karl's mood when the party encounters him again?

3. What is the significance of Tolstoy on this trip?

4. What is Karl's emotional state when he joins the author's hunting party?

5. What is Hemingway's opinion of American writing?

6. What happens when Kandinsky visits Hemingway's camp?

7. How does the author manage to detect the rhino before his trackers do?

8. What affect does this new camp have on author and Karl?

9. What does Kandinsky say to Hemingway when he first meets him?

10. How does the author, Pop and Mama initially react to the shooting of the first rhino?

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