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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. Near Harry and his mistress’s camp under the trees, the narrator describes a nearly dry water hole where what animals come to in the mornings?
(a) Sea eagles
(b) Elephants
(c) Sand grouse
(d) Vultures

2. When Harry’s mistress tells him in the beginning of the story that he’s not going to die, he responds by saying, “Don’t be silly. I’m dying now. Ask those bastards.” What does Harry point to when he says this?
(a) The vultures
(b) The flies
(c) The mosquitoes
(d) The hyenas

3. What does the word “skischule” translate to in English?
(a) Butcher
(b) Wine parlor
(c) Hot dog stand
(d) Ski school

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

5. By what name does the author assert the western summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro is known as in the author’s preface to the story?
(a) Ngaje Ngai
(b) Befok Anties
(c) Bakkie Bakvisse
(d) Aweh Baas

Short Answer Questions

1. Anatolia is a region of what current country?

2. How would you describe the narrator of “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?

3. Where does the narrator say Harry “had been happiest in the good time of his life”?

4. In what part of his body is Harry afflicted in the story?

5. Harry and the woman are waiting for the arrival of what in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?

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