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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. How is the chore boy described that was left at the ranch and told not to let anyone get any hay in Harry’s recollections?
(a) A tall buck
(b) A half-wit
(c) Dumb and deaf
(d) A little nerdy squirt

2. As Harry dies in the end of the story, his companion hears what animal stop whimpering and begin to make a strange human sound?
(a) A zebra
(b) A leopard
(c) A vulture
(d) A hyena

3. What does Harry say was burned out of the truck when arguing with his companion in the beginning of the story?
(a) A bearing
(b) A piston
(c) A belt
(d) A valve

4. The Sette Communi was a group of municipalities in the Veneto region that spoke what language?
(a) The Udmurt language
(b) The Sami language
(c) The Cimbrian language
(d) The Frisian language

5. When recalling his first, lost love, Harry recalls writing her a letter and sending it where?
(a) To Boston
(b) To New York
(c) To Paris
(d) To London

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Harry recall as being poor and having been in “romantic awe of him” in his flashbacks to his past?

2. In Harry’s flashback to fleeing from a British gunner subaltern with a woman, they spend the night together and the next morning Harry arrives where “with a black eye, carrying his coat because one sleeve was missing”?

3. When Harry offers Compton breakfast at the end of the story, Compton only accepts what?

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

5. The narrator says of Harry’s female companion that she “loved him dearly as a writer, as a man, as a companion and as” what?

(see the answer key)

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