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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. Why is Hemingway's hunting party finding it hard to feel happy for Karl's rhino?
(a) Their rhino was killed with much more skill.
(b) His fine rhino makes theirs look ridiculous.
(c) His rhino was found just outside the camp.
(d) They don't like how much he is gloating.

2. What type of knife is used to stick the reedbuck that Hemingway shoots?
(a) A pen knife.
(b) A sticking knife.
(c) A hunting knife.
(d) A skinning knife.

3.
(a) It is his life's joy.
(b) It is like a second wife.
(c) She is too much trouble.
(d) She is the apple of his eye.

4. How is Pop able to shoot elephants in high grass?
(a) He can smell where they are.
(b) By climbing onto a person's shoulders.
(c) He sets fire to the grass and scares them out.
(d) He shoots into the grass randomly.

5. What does Abdullah do to the guineas that Hemingway shoots down to make them legal to eat?
(a) Cut their feet off.
(b) Cut their heads off.
(c) Cut their wings off.
(d) Cut their beaks off.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why can the hunting party not get above ridges of hills as they hunt the rhino?

2. What color is an old buffalo bull?

3. What was Hemingway aiming for when he shot the reedbuck?

4. What allows Hemingway his strong sense of smell?

5. What does it mean when a tracker says Kufa?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the Tolstoy book the author read affect him?

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

4. Why do the author and Pop refuse their baths?

5. What are the author's thoughts about Charo at this stage?

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

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

8. How do Kandinsky and Hemingway meet?

9. What reason does Droopy give for stopping Hemingway shooting the rhino?

10. How successful is their search?

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