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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. Of Harry and his mistress, the narrator says, “It was not her fault that when he went to her he was” what?
(a) Over the hill
(b) Already over
(c) Already devoid of talent
(d) Depressed

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?
(a) In Wyoming
(b) In Hungary
(c) In Canada
(d) In Germany

3. Near Harry and his mistress’s camp under the trees, the narrator describes a nearly dry water hole where what animals come to in the mornings?
(a) Vultures
(b) Elephants
(c) Sea eagles
(d) Sand grouse

4. In one of Harry’s flashbacks, he recalls talking to a member of the Kaiser Jägers above the saw-mill about the fighting on what mountain?
(a) Mount Kilimanjaro
(b) Mount McKinley
(c) Mount Pasubio
(d) Mount Everest

5. Who is described in a flashback of Christmas day as having “flown across the lines to bomb the Austrian officers' leave train, machine-gunning them as they scattered and ran”?
(a) Compton
(b) Williamson
(c) Julian
(d) Barker

Short Answer Questions

1. What location does Harry describe to his dictating companion, where “the flower sellers dyed their flowers in the street and the dye ran over the paving where the autobus started”?

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

3. Harry’s mistress tells him in the beginning of “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” “You can’t die if you don’t” what?

4. What does the German word “jäger” translate to in English?

5. In Harry’s flashback to the fighting in Anatolia, the narrator remarks, “That was the day he'd first seen dead men wearing white ballet skirts and upturned shoes with” what on them?

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