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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 did Njombo say it would be bad luck to shoot a python?
(a) There would be no rain.
(b) The crops would fail.
(c) Hyenas would get the village's goats.
(d) The rains would never end.

2. What was special about the animal killed by the hunters in Chapter 12?
(a) It was very old.
(b) It was pregnant.
(c) It was very young.
(d) It was lame.

3. What did Robin pretend to threaten to get Sammy to lift the curse?
(a) His surviving children.
(b) His cattle.
(c) His surviving wives.
(d) His hut.

4. On what had Elspeth cut her hand?
(a) A window.
(b) A blade of sharp grass.
(c) A sharp rock.
(d) A broken bottle.

5. What did Mr. Roos offer to show Elspeth?
(a) A whydah-bird.
(b) A python.
(c) A boomklop.
(d) A waterfall.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many spare rooms did the Palmer's stone bungalow have?

2. How many unmarried daughters did Robin's Aunt Veronica have?

3. What animal did Elspeth worry would attack her pony, Twinkle?

4. Why was Hereward embarrassed around the Kikuyu men?

5. How many princes had been blinded by the Abyssinian emperor?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Lettice convinced that she brought disaster on her loved ones?

2. How did the Palmer's house differ from the Huxley's residence?

3. Why did Lettice elope with Hereward?

4. How did Elspeth view the planned hunt versus the actual hunt?

5. Why were the other adults so upset at Mr. Roos for trapping the leopard?

6. Why were Tilly and Lettice suspicious of Mr. Roos' behavior toward Elspeth?

7. How did Ian describe Ahmed's people (Somalis), whom he had lived among before coming to Africa?

8. How did Lettice Palmer view Hereward's desperate attempts to impose discipline on his workers?

9. How did the other Europeans and the Kikuyu feel about the Italian priests at the mission?

10. Describe how Elspeth viewed the dead leopard.

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