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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 term does the narrator use in describing the police that followed the deserter to the woodcutter’s cabin in Harry’s flashback?
(a) Mercenaries
(b) Gendarmes
(c) Pulapol
(d) Patrol

2. Who does Harry consider “were dull and they drank too much, or they played too much backgammon”?
(a) The rich
(b) Americans
(c) Women
(d) Europeans

3. The narrator says of Harry in the second half of the story, “So this was how you died, in whispers that you” what?
(a) Did not make
(b) Did not hear
(c) Did not consider
(d) Did not remember

4. What does Harry recall giving Williamson instead of shooting him when Williamson was dying from his injuries?
(a) His own rifle
(b) All his morphine pills
(c) A love letter from his wife
(d) A bottle of whiskey

5. In Harry’s flashback to fleeing from a British gunner subaltern with a woman, they spend the night together and the next morning Harry arrives where “with a black eye, carrying his coat because one sleeve was missing”?
(a) His wedding
(b) Buckingham Palace
(c) The Officer’s Ball
(d) The Pera Palace

Short Answer Questions

1. When dictating to his companion, Harry describes living and writing in Paris in a top room of a hotel where he paid how much per month?

2. On what continent is Mount Kilimanjaro located?

3. What word from the narrative refers to the act or condition of giving tacit assent, agreement, or consent by silence or without objection?

4. As Harry dies in the end of the story, his female companion is dreaming about the house located where?

5. The name of the western summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro translates to what in English, according to the author’s preface to the story?

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