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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. 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?
(a) A ski instructor
(b) A hotel proprietor
(c) A butcher
(d) A schoolteacher

2. In Harry’s flashback to Schrunz on Christmas day, the narrator describes a glacier above what mountain huts?
(a) The Berghaus-Verein
(b) The Madlenerhaus
(c) The Chamanna Dal Linard
(d) The Bodenalpenhaus

3. What is the name of the African servant to Harry and his mistress in the story?
(a) Molo
(b) Hans
(c) Bwana
(d) Nansen

4. One of Harry’s mistress’s children was killed how?
(a) In a car accident
(b) In a plane crash
(c) In a hurricane
(d) In battle

5. What illness did Hemingway contract during a 1933 trip to Africa that he later reflected in his story “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?
(a) Dysentery
(b) Gangrene
(c) Malaria
(d) Tuberculosis

Short Answer Questions

1. Of death, Harry says in the beginning of the story, “The remarkable thing is that it’s” what?

2. The narrator refers to Harry’s mistress as the “kindly caretaker and destroyer of” what?

3. When describing his past to his companion who dictates, Harry describes the people of the Place Contrescarpe as being of two kinds: the drunkards and the what?

4. Of what kind of animal does Harry’s companion say, “He’s the one makes the noise at night. I don’t mind it. They’re a filthy animal though”?

5. What kind of tree is Harry’s cot described as sitting under in the beginning of the story?

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