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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. 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) Hans
(b) Herr Lent
(c) Molo
(d) Nansen

2. The narrator says of Harry in the beginning of the story that “he had no pain and with the pain the horror had gone and all he felt now was a great tiredness and” what?
(a) Anger that this was the end of it
(b) Apathy about going on
(c) Sorrow for all his mistakes
(d) Irritation that he had to wait

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

4. Of death, Harry says in the beginning of the story, “The remarkable thing is that it’s” what?
(a) Cold
(b) Painless
(c) Chilling
(d) Frightening

5. Where does Harry recall living at Christmas in a woodcutter’s house?
(a) Gauertal
(b) Connecticut
(c) Zurich
(d) Maine

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the log house that Harry describes to his companion as she dictates in the second half of the story?

2. What drinks do Harry and his companion have after she’s returned from hunting in the evening?

3. When Harry awakens in the evening, the African servant tells him that his companion has gone to do what?

4. Where does Compton appear to be flying Harry to at the end of the story?

5. In Harry’s flashback to fleeing from a British gunner subaltern with a woman, they get into a taxi and go to what location along the Bosphorus?

(see the answer key)

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