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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. What happened to the log house that Harry describes to his companion as she dictates in the second half of the story?
(a) It was flooded in a storm
(b) It was foreclosed by the bank
(c) It burned down
(d) It was sold

2. When Harry begins dictating to his companion, he describes a log house, chinked with what on a hill above the lake?
(a) Mortar
(b) Paint
(c) Ivy
(d) Coal

3. The author’s preface to “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” states that Mount Kilimanjaro is how many feet high?
(a) 20,325
(b) 15,356
(c) 18,210
(d) 19,710

4. 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”?
(a) The Officer’s Ball
(b) Buckingham Palace
(c) The Pera Palace
(d) His wedding

5. Who does Harry recall as being poor and having been in “romantic awe of him” in his flashbacks to his past?
(a) Hans
(b) Julian
(c) Nansen
(d) Molo

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Harry’s mistress repeatedly ask him if he’d like her to do in the beginning of the story?

2. Compton tells Harry at the end of the story that he’ll have to stop where to refuel?

3. What kind of plane does Compton arrive in at the end of the story?

4. In Harry’s flashback to the fighting in Anatolia, the narrator remarks, “That was the day he'd first seen dead men wearing white ballet skirts and upturned shoes with” what on them?

5. What is Harry’s response when his companion says, “That's not fair. I love you now. I'll always love you. Don't you love me?”

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