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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. One of Harry’s mistress’s children was killed how?
(a) In a plane crash
(b) In a hurricane
(c) In battle
(d) In a car accident

2. Where does Compton appear to be flying Harry to at the end of the story?
(a) The train station at Paris
(b) The rescue center in Arusha
(c) The hospital in Bengasi
(d) The top of Mt. Kilimanjaro

3. Harry says that he and his mistress hired whom instead of a good mechanic?
(a) A drunken lorry driver
(b) A voodoo goddess
(c) A half-baked Kikuyu driver
(d) A swindler from Europe

4. In one of Harry’s flashbacks, he recalls talking to a member of the Kaiser Jägers above the saw-mill about the attack on Perticara and where?
(a) Cairo
(b) Naples
(c) Asalone
(d) Paris

5. When Harry thinks back to the railway station in Karagatch, he recalls the headlight of what cutting through the dark?
(a) The Royal Rajasthan
(b) The Simplon-Orient
(c) The Royal Scotsman
(d) The British Pullman

Short Answer Questions

1. By what name does the author assert the western summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro is known as in the author’s preface to the story?

2. As Harry describes his past for his companion to dictate in the second half of the story, he describes the husband of the woman who ran the Bal Musette as having what occupation?

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

4. 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”?

5. 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?

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