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1.Which animal attacks Snowy on the boat bound for Congo?
A parrot
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A snake
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A seagull
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A cat
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2.What is the name of Tintin's guide?
Snowball
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Muganga
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Coco
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Gregori
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Snowball and Muganga are also characters in this adventure.
3.What is the first wild animal that Tintin encounters in the Congo?
A crocodile
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A lion
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A monkey
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A giraffe
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The meeting with the crocodile is the beginning of an animal parade, which will quickly turn into carnage. The animal massacres, although ensuring a (questionable) visual comedy in this album, are revealing of the spirit of the colonists who saw themselves free to massacre the local species for their leisure and their prestige.
4.What is the model of Tintin's car (present on the cover)?
Ford Model T
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Citroen Type C4
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Renault KZ
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Buick Y-Job
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These models were all produced in the 1920s and 1930s.
5.What does Tintin hit with his car?
An elephant
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A train
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The king of a village
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Snowy
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6.Which tribe welcomes Tintin?
The Batosu'lo
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The Bakalo'rea
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The Bakrea'alo
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The Babaoro'm
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7.What is the name of the rival tribe?
m'Hacaroni
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m'Hovomino
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m'Hatouvou
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m'Halodo
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8.What object does the village wizard accuse Tintin of stealing?
A cultural artifact
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A sacred diamond
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The king's crown
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His bed
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9.Who saves Tintin from the crocodiles?
Snowy
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His guide
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A missionary
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A rival crocodile
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Just like Tintin, the missionary is an incarnation of the "good white" who brings education and modernization to the countries of Africa. This is an opportunity to remember that this album was thought of as a real advertisement for the colonies. However, the choice to send Tintin to the Congo was not that of Hergé, but that of the very conservative Abbé Wallez, director of the Petit Vingtième, in order to encourage vocations among Belgian youth.
10.What does Tintin teach Congolese children?
French
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Mathematics
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Hunting
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Rubber Production
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When the story was originally published, Tintin was teaching colonial history: he then taught Congolese children that their homeland was Belgium. The box was redesigned in the 1946 reissue: Tintin now teaches mathematics, which is much less offensive.
11.Which animal disturbs the class?
A boa constrictor
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A crocodile
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Snowy
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A leopard
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12.What is the name of the secret society to which the village wizard belongs?
The Leopard Men
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The Crocodile Men
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The Lion Men
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The Wildebeest Men
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The Leopard Men, or Aniota, were a secret society once active in the Belgian Congo.
13.How does Tintin hunt the rhinoceros?
Grenade
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Cannon
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Dynomite
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Flamethrower
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The destruction of the local fauna at its height.
14.What is the name of the man who tries to assassinate Tintin (a stowaway at the beginning of the story)?
Tom
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Allan
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Bill
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Jose
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15.Who does he work for?
Al Capone
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Rastapopoulos
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Lenin
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Roosevelt
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A direct bridge to the next adventure: Hergé was impatient to send his reporter across the Atlantic.
16.And how does he die?
He is trampled by an Elephant
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He is devoured by crocodiles
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He is hit by a train
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His gun misfires
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17.Published in 1931, the original version of the adventure was in black and white. What year was the color version released?
1933
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1946
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1955
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1973
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The colorization (just like the reduction in the number of plates) was a request from the publisher to meet the expectations of booksellers. In 1946, Hergé enlisted the services of his friend Edgar P. Jacobs to rework his first albums, redesigning them and adding color.
18.Who can be seen in the background of the first story box?
His guide
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Captain Haddock
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Abbé Wallez
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Thomson and Thompson
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In his 1946 reissue, Hergé added the two policemen in the first panel. They originally only appeared from "Cigars of the Pharaoh".