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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 bell on a pole by the door of the log house used to do what?
(a) Call people in to meals
(b) Call the guards to their stations
(c) Warn of a bomb raid
(d) Frighten away bears

2. Where is “that old bastard” from that Harry describes as having beaten the chore boy in Harry’s memories of the ranch?
(a) The Canyons
(b) The Prairies
(c) The Willows
(d) The Forks

3. By what name does Harry refer to his companion’s “people” during their argument in the beginning of the story?
(a) Your godforsaken North Country Irish people
(b) Your goddamned Old Westbury Saratoga, Palm Beach people
(c) Your ridiculous, idiotic West Monroe, Louisiana people
(d) Your goddamned WASP New England people

4. When Harry and his companion begin arguing in the story, he tells her that what were his sword and his armor?
(a) Her love
(b) Her passion
(c) Her money
(d) Their children

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Harry’s companion tells him when she returns from hunting, “The boys have the wood all ready and the grass to make” what?

2. The woman that Harry took “away from a British gunner subaltern after a row” in one of his flashbacks is described as being from where?

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

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

5. 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?

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