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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 kind of plane does Compton arrive in at the end of the story?
(a) An Airbus
(b) A Puss Moth
(c) A Cessna
(d) A B-52.

2. 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) Pulapol
(c) Patrol
(d) Gendarmes

3. The author notes in the preface to the story that the frozen carcass of what animal lies close to the western summit of Kilimanjaro?
(a) A lion
(b) A hyena
(c) A wildebeest
(d) A leopard

4. What do the two boys have slung and carry as they follow Harry’s companion back to the camp when she returns in the evening?
(a) A cougar
(b) A lion
(c) A zebra
(d) A Tommie

5. The narrator says of Harry in the story, “Now if this was how it ended, and he knew it was, he must not turn like some snake biting itself because” of what reason?
(a) It was starving to death
(b) It feared itself
(c) Its back was broken
(d) It was cold

Short Answer Questions

1. What term was popularized by Ernest Hemingway and referred to describe the generation that came of age during World War I?

2. Of Harry, the narrator says, “It was never what he had done, but always” what?

3. The Sette Communi was a group of municipalities in the Veneto region that spoke what language?

4. Harry’s companion tells him when she returns with meat that she’s been destroyed how many times before?

5. When Harry’s mistress says in the beginning of the story, “Please tell me what I can do,” Harry responds that she can take his leg off or do what?

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