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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, the narrator says, “It was never what he had done, but always” what?
(a) What he had regretted
(b) What he could do
(c) What he thought
(d) What he said he would do

2. Compton watches for holes made by what animals as he prepares to take off in the plane at the end of the story?
(a) Warthogs
(b) Zebras
(c) Boas
(d) Hyenas

3. Of what kind of animal does Harry’s companion say, “He’s the one makes the noise at night. I don’t mind it. They’re a filthy animal though”?
(a) A vulture
(b) A hyena
(c) A lion
(d) A leopard

4. What animals does Harry see from the plane that are described as “big-headed dots seeming to climb as they moved in long fingers across the plain”?
(a) Vultures
(b) Zebras
(c) Hyenas
(d) Wildebeests

5. Williamson is described as “a fat man, very brave, and a good officer, although addicted to” what?
(a) Bad music
(b) Fantastic shows
(c) Women and sex
(d) Drink and gambling

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from the narrative refers to the act or condition of giving tacit assent, agreement, or consent by silence or without objection?

2. Of what does the narrator say Harry had sold “in one form or another, all his life and when your affections are not too involved you give much better value for the money”?

3. What café does Harry describe as being filled with “the smell of dirty sweat and poverty and drunkenness” when dictating to his companion?

4. Harry tells the woman that the first thing he did to deserve his fate was not putting what on his wound when he first scratched himself?

5. As Harry dies in the end of the story, his companion hears what animal stop whimpering and begin to make a strange human sound?

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