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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Snows of Kilimanjaro.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Harry’s response when his companion says, “That's not fair. I love you now. I'll always love you. Don't you love me?”
(a) Yes, I want to marry you, sweetheart
(b) No. I don’t think so. I never have
(c) Yes, of course I love you, dear
(d) Once I loved you. I don’t know anymore

2. Harry tells his mistress in the story, “Love is a dunghill. And I’m the” what?
(a) Cock that gets on it to crow
(b) Worms underneath wriggling for freedom
(c) Mule that eats the hay
(d) Lucky man who gets to step in it

3. Near Harry and his mistress’s camp under the trees, the narrator describes a nearly dry water hole where what animals come to in the mornings?
(a) Sand grouse
(b) Sea eagles
(c) Elephants
(d) Vultures

4. What word from the narrative refers to the act or condition of giving tacit assent, agreement, or consent by silence or without objection?
(a) Arrogance
(b) Acquiescence
(c) Obliqueness
(d) Allusion

5. What composer does Harry say to his companion “wrote the words and music. This knowledge that you’re going mad for me”?
(a) Cole Porter
(b) Irving Berlin
(c) Stephen Sondheim
(d) Franz Joseph Haydn

Short Answer Questions

1. What river runs through Paris?

2. Harry tells the woman that the first thing he did to deserve his fate was not putting what on his wound when he first scratched himself?

3. Harry’s companion tells him when she returns from hunting, “The boys have the wood all ready and the grass to make” what?

4. Where does Compton appear to be flying Harry to at the end of the story?

5. In his first flashbacks of memory, Harry recalls “looking out the window and seeing snow on the mountains in” what country?

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