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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. How does Link describe the giraffe that passes by his car?
(a) As a fawn skyscraper.
(b) As a lanky nuisance.
(c) As a tree with ears.
(d) As a lady's purse.

2. What does Sally call Link when says that everyone who gambles loses in the end?
(a) A wet blanket.
(b) A joker.
(c) An old man.
(d) A downpour.

3. With what does Link decide to bring Danilo down when he is trapped in the car?
(a) A knife.
(b) A pencil.
(c) A gun.
(d) A phone call.

4. "Yebo" means "yes in _____.
(a) Zulu.
(b) Dutch.
(c) Bantu.
(d) Afrikaans.

5. The music Roderick Hodge plays when Link arrives is less _____ than the music in London.
(a) Beat-oriented.
(b) Alternative.
(c) Undeground.
(d) Emotional.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Link find in his pocket that he deems useless in his situation in the car?

2. What does Link speculate that his rescuers might send to save him?

3. What does Evan Pentelow hang on to that disturbs Pieter Losenwoldt?

4. What color are the walls painted in the mine?

5. What does Link say he has left in Roderick Hodge's washroom as an excuse to leave her?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the first objective observation Link makes when he finds himself trapped in the car?

2. Why can't Link escape from the handcuffs?

3. What does Haagner say to warn the group about lions?

4. Describe the light packs the party uses to go into the mine.

5. What happens when Conrad and Evan Pentelow are loading up the station wagon for Kruger Park and how does Link help?

6. Why does Roderick Hodge try to bounce Melanie back into seduction mode after her political spiel and what do Melanie's instincts tell her to do?

7. How does Link take stock of the two attempts on his life since he arrived in South Africa?

8. What are Evan Pentelow's beliefs concerning the value of gold?

9. What is the difference, according to Pieter Losenwoldt, between the way gold is extracted in South Africa and how it is extracted in California and Alaska.

10. What does Conrad reveal about Evan Pentelow's involvement in finding Link?

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