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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 word from the story refers to tight-fitting trousers worn primarily for horseback riding?
(a) Dongles
(b) Jodhpurs
(c) Derbies
(d) Patsies

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

3. When recalling his first, lost love, Harry recalls writing to tell her that he thought he saw her outside of what location and “it made him go all faint and sick inside”?
(a) The Regence
(b) The Pentagon
(c) The Louvre
(d) The Capital

4. Harry’s mistress tells him in the beginning of the story that Black’s Medical Dictionary says that what is bad for him in his condition?
(a) Talking
(b) Laying still
(c) Antibiotics
(d) Alcohol

5. What does Harry regret having done “so much that he blunted the edge of his perceptions”?
(a) Gossiping
(b) Drinking
(c) Gambling
(d) Drugs

Short Answer Questions

1. When Harry and his companion begin arguing in the story, he tells her that what were his sword and his armor?

2. Harry’s companion says in the beginning of the story, “I said I’d go anywhere you wanted. If you wanted to shoot we could have gone shooting” where?

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

4. The narrator says of Harry in the second half of the story, “So this was how you died, in whispers that you” what?

5. Harry tells his companion in the evening as they sit by the fire, “You know the only thing I've never lost is” what?

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