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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. When Harry begins dictating to his companion, he describes a log house on a hill above the lake and a road that went up to the hills where Harry had picked what?
(a) Cherries
(b) Blueberries
(c) Blackberries
(d) Huckleberries

2. Harry’s companion tells him when she returns from hunting, “The boys have the wood all ready and the grass to make” what?
(a) The beds
(b) The gurney
(c) The hut
(d) The smudge

3. 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 British Pullman
(c) The Simplon-Orient
(d) The Royal Scotsman

4. When dictating to his companion, Harry describes living in an apartment where you could see the wood and coal man’s place. What did the wood and coal man also sell?
(a) Pigs
(b) Butchered hens
(c) Bad wine
(d) Olives

5. What does the phrase “Sans Voir” from the story translate to in English?
(a) Without voice
(b) Without sound
(c) Without love
(d) Without seeing

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is described in Harry’s flashback as having “lost it all” while playing cards by lantern light during a blizzard at the mountain huts by Schrunz?

2. Who is described as Harry’s “femme de ménage” in his descriptions of Paris while dictating to his companion?

3. The Sette Communi was a group of municipalities in the Veneto region that spoke what language?

4. Of Harry, the narrator says, “He could beat anything, he thought, because nothing could hurt him if he” what?

5. What kind of African equids does Harry see when he looks out over the plains in the beginning of the story?

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