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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. When Harry’s mistress tells him in the beginning of the story that he’s not going to die, he responds by saying, “Don’t be silly. I’m dying now. Ask those bastards.” What does Harry point to when he says this?
(a) The vultures
(b) The hyenas
(c) The mosquitoes
(d) The flies

2. What river runs through Paris?
(a) The River Seine
(b) The River Thames
(c) The River Elise
(d) The River Esplanade

3. How is the chore boy described that was left at the ranch and told not to let anyone get any hay in Harry’s recollections?
(a) A tall buck
(b) A little nerdy squirt
(c) A half-wit
(d) Dumb and deaf

4. Of Harry, the narrator says in the beginning of the story, “Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until” when?
(a) He had the inspiration to write them
(b) He had the skills to write them well
(c) He had the intelligence to write them well
(d) He knew enough to write them well

5. Of death, Harry says in the beginning of the story, “The remarkable thing is that it’s” what?
(a) Cold
(b) Chilling
(c) Painless
(d) Frightening

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” adapted and produced to film, starring Gregory Peck as Harry?

2. As his companion dictates, Harry describes renting a trout stream after the war. Harry says that what individual had a fine fishing season that year?

3. In Harry’s flashback to Schrunz on Christmas day, the narrator describes a glacier above what mountain huts?

4. What is the name of the African servant to Harry and his mistress in the story?

5. Harry scratched himself where on his body, leading to his current condition?

(see the answer key)

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