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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. Perticara is a town located in what country?
(a) France
(b) Belgium
(c) Italy
(d) Austria

2. When Harry awakens in the evening, the African servant tells him that his companion has gone to do what?
(a) Cook dinner
(b) Bathe
(c) Call for help
(d) Hunt

3. What word from the story refers to tight-fitting trousers worn primarily for horseback riding?
(a) Derbies
(b) Patsies
(c) Jodhpurs
(d) Dongles

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

5. When Harry first drifts into the flashback of his memories in the story, he sees in his mind a railway station in Karagatch. In what country is Karagatch located?
(a) Russia
(b) Turkey
(c) Spain
(d) Germany

Short Answer Questions

1. What word, meaning a wine parlor, does the narrator use when describing the setting of Schrunz in Harry’s flashback?

2. What word meaning a cargo truck does Compton use when he arrives at the end of the story?

3. Harry tells the woman in the beginning of “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” that he watched the way the vultures sailed carefully in case he ever wanted to do what?

4. What war was Harry fighting in when he was in Anatolia?

5. Of Harry and his mistress, the narrator says, “It was not her fault that when he went to her he was” what?

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