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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Beryl discover about the acquaintance she encounters while assisting Woody?
(a) He lost his arm to a lion attack.
(b) He is married and has children.
(c) He is a fugitive from the law.
(d) He has malaria.

2. What does Beryl see while flying over an area a second time while searching for Woody?
(a) A heard of wildebeast.
(b) Woody's plane.
(c) A tribe of Masai.
(d) A bushfire.

3. What does Beryl do when she sees the lion?
(a) She lies on the ground.
(b) She slows down and sings at the top of her lungs.
(c) She stands motionless.
(d) She goes into hysterics.

4. What do Beryl and Kibii want from a Wandorobo?
(a) To give them poison for their arrow tips.
(b) Some shells for a ritual.
(c) Some bones from a wildebeast.
(d) To take them to Kaptama.

5. From where does Beryl's father buy a pregnant horse?
(a) Somaliland.
(b) Ethiopia.
(c) Etitria.
(d) Abyssinia.

6. How does Beryl know she has gained the new racehorse's trust?
(a) He stops throwing Beryl.
(b) He lets Beryl pet him.
(c) The horse stands over her to protect her when she spends the night in its stall.
(d) It seems more comfortable when she cleans his stall.

7. According to Kibii's philosophy, what caused there to be death in the world?
(a) A hyena.
(b) An Ibis.
(c) A chameleon.
(d) A mongoose.

8. What does Ebert promise the man with Blackwater at Nungwe?
(a) That Beryl would come and talk with him.
(b) That Beryl would deliver a message to his family.
(c) That Beryl would take him to a hospital in Nairobi.
(d) That Beryl would bring him some gin.

9. What do Beryl and her dog do during Beryl's childhood?
(a) They explore the vicinity near their farm.
(b) They assist Lord Delamere on his ranch.
(c) They go hunting with the Murani Masai people.
(d) They play in a river.

10. Where do Beryl and her dog wait during the instance that Beryl recalls from her childhood?
(a) In a cave.
(b) In a hut.
(c) In a clearing.
(d) On a rock.

11. What is Rothschild's camp?
(a) A hotel for high society colonists.
(b) A camp for railway workers.
(c) A refuge for hunting parties.
(d) A mining camp.

12. What does Beryl's father do with the money he earns from the gristmill?
(a) He sends it to relatives in England.
(b) He loses it gambling.
(c) He builds a sawmill.
(d) He purchases more farmland.

13. What happens to the bird that could whistle during Beryl's childhood?
(a) It flies away.
(b) It dies in a fire.
(c) It whistles for the dogs that kill it.
(d) They sell it to a boy.

14. What does Beryl nearly miss while reminiscing about her past in Book 1, Chapter 3?
(a) A flashing light on the ground.
(b) A silver glitter shaped like a pond.
(c) A red flag.
(d) Brush clumped together like an arrow.

15. What happens to Arab Kosky after he traps a warthog in a hole?
(a) He falls into another hole and breaks his leg.
(b) The warthog runs out of the hole and cuts him in the leg.
(c) He crawls in after the hog and it charges and cuts Arab Kosky's arm.
(d) He is busy looking into the hole and he is attacked by a leopard.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Rothschild's camp?

2. Who does Beryl stop to assist when his car breaks down?

3. What happens to the lion on the night it attacks Beryl?

4. What does seeing zebras remind Beryl of while searching for Woody?

5. What is Beryl's dog's condition when she finds him after he chases after a warthog?

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