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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. What kind of trees are described as running from the house to the dock?
(a) Lombardy poplars
(b) Jefferson pines
(c) Douglas firs
(d) Redwood trees

2. What kind of African equids does Harry see when he looks out over the plains in the beginning of the story?
(a) Zebras
(b) Camels
(c) Alpacas
(d) Lemurs

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

4. Harry’s mistress tells him in the beginning of the story that Black’s Medical Dictionary says that what is bad for him in his condition?
(a) Alcohol
(b) Antibiotics
(c) Talking
(d) Laying still

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?
(a) A leopard
(b) A zebra
(c) A hyena
(d) A vulture

Short Answer Questions

1. What location does Harry describe to his dictating companion, where “the flower sellers dyed their flowers in the street and the dye ran over the paving where the autobus started”?

2. 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?

3. What kind of tree is Harry’s cot described as sitting under in the beginning of the story?

4. When dictating to his companion, Harry describes living and writing in Paris in a top room of a hotel where he paid how much per month?

5. Perticara is a town located in what country?

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