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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to the log house that Harry describes to his companion as she dictates in the second half of the story?
(a) It was foreclosed by the bank
(b) It was flooded in a storm
(c) It was sold
(d) It burned down

2. Who argues with the Secretary about whether or not there is snow on the mountains in Harry’s flashback in the beginning of the story?
(a) Nansen
(b) Herr Lent
(c) Hans
(d) Molo

3. How many children did Harry’s female companion have?
(a) 4
(b) 5
(c) 3
(d) 2

4. What kind of hat is Compton described as wearing at the end of the story?
(a) A brown felt hat
(b) A blue fedora
(c) A grey safari hat
(d) A black top hat

5. Anatolia is a region of what current country?
(a) Poland
(b) Austria
(c) Turkey
(d) Germany

6. When Harry begins dictating to his companion, he describes a log house, chinked with what on a hill above the lake?
(a) Mortar
(b) Paint
(c) Ivy
(d) Coal

7. What does the German word “jäger” translate to in English?
(a) Doctor
(b) Hunter
(c) Drink
(d) Priest

8. The name of the western summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro translates to what in English, according to the author’s preface to the story?
(a) The Scaffold of Life
(b) The Palace of Kings
(c) The Den of the Dragon
(d) The House of God

9. Of Harry, the narrator says, “It was never what he had done, but always” what?
(a) What he thought
(b) What he said he would do
(c) What he had regretted
(d) What he could do

10. How are the flashbacks into Harry’s past delineated from the rest of the narrative in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?
(a) They are italicized
(b) They are in quotations
(c) They are in parentheses
(d) They are in boldface

11. Harry’s mistress tells him in the beginning of “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” “You can’t die if you don’t” what?
(a) Try to
(b) Give up
(c) Want to
(d) Fight

12. Harry tells the woman in the beginning of the story that the vultures appeared the day that what happened?
(a) The day they arrived in Africa
(b) The day the truck broke down
(c) The day they got engaged
(d) The day they arrived in Egypt

13. What kind of tree is Harry’s cot described as sitting under in the beginning of the story?
(a) A beech tree
(b) A mimosa tree
(c) A coconut tree
(d) A palm tree

14. In what year was “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” adapted and produced to film, starring Gregory Peck as Harry?
(a) 1936
(b) 1952
(c) 1948
(d) 1942

15. Harry questions in the beginning of the story whether it is sight or what that brings the vultures in?
(a) Scent
(b) Empathy
(c) Intelligence
(d) Sound

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the word “skischule” translate to in English?

2. What does Harry’s mistress repeatedly ask him if he’d like her to do in the beginning of the story?

3. One of Harry’s flashbacks describes a trip for Anatolia. On this trip, Harry remembers making an attack with the newly arrived officers from where?

4. What kind of plane does Compton arrive in at the end of the story?

5. The narrator says that Harry planned this safari in the hopes that he could burn what off his soul in “the way a fighter went to the mountains to work and train in order to burn it out of his body”?

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