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1. 1.

   How did the giraffes respond to the narrator's call?
2. 2.

   In what aspect were the elephants similar to giraffes?
3. 3.

   Say whether the information in these sentences is true or false.

   1. The Shell Oil Company released the narrator reluctantly when he expressed his desire to join the war.
   2. The astonishing number of giraffe that the narrator passed on the first day was a rare and wonderful sight.
   3. The narrator got out of his car and gaze dat the elephant family for quite a while.
   4. A group of Masai tribesmen crowed round the narrator's car, and he understood their language perfectly.
   5. The narrator was given a medical examination by an affable American doctor.
4. 4.

   What "magnanimous gesture" was shown by the Shell Oil Company?

5. 5.

   Why did the narrator find the giraffes surprisingly "tame"? Describe his encounter with them.

6. 6.

   How did the African man at the frontier treat the narrator? Was his behaviour different from the usual behaviour of a person at a customs and immigration outpost?