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

2. What kind of tree is Harry’s cot described as sitting under in the beginning of the story?
(a) A mimosa tree
(b) A beech tree
(c) A coconut tree
(d) A palm tree

3. Who is described in Harry’s flashback as having “lost it all” while playing cards by lantern light during a blizzard at the mountain huts by Schrunz?
(a) Herr Hans
(b) Herr Williamson
(c) Herr Lent
(d) Herr Julian

4. Where does Compton appear to be flying Harry to at the end of the story?
(a) The top of Mt. Kilimanjaro
(b) The rescue center in Arusha
(c) The hospital in Bengasi
(d) The train station at Paris

5. What do the two boys have slung and carry as they follow Harry’s companion back to the camp when she returns in the evening?
(a) A zebra
(b) A lion
(c) A cougar
(d) A Tommie

Short Answer Questions

1. As Harry dies in the end of the story, his female companion is dreaming about the house located where?

2. What composer does Harry say to his companion “wrote the words and music. This knowledge that you’re going mad for me”?

3. What does the word “skischule” translate to in English?

4. Harry says that he and his mistress hired whom instead of a good mechanic?

5. When Harry apologizes and tells his companion that he’s never loved anyone else the way he loved her, the narrator comments, “He slipped into the familiar lie he made” what by?

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