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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. 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) Laying still
(d) Talking

2. 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 Williamson
(b) Herr Lent
(c) Herr Julian
(d) Herr Hans

3. What decorative object does Harry describe outside the Boucherie Chevaline when he dictates to his companion in the latter part of the story?
(a) A brass cow’s head
(b) A silver goat’s head
(c) A golden wreath
(d) A golden horse’s head

4. Compton tells Harry at the end of the story that he’ll have to stop where to refuel?
(a) Paris
(b) Arusha
(c) Cairo
(d) Zurich

5. When was Black’s Medical Dictionary first published?
(a) 1723
(b) 1911
(c) 1885
(d) 1906

Short Answer Questions

1. Of his female companion, Harry thinks to himself as she returns to camp, “she was not pretty, but he liked her” what?

2. 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?

3. Of Harry, the narrator says, “He could beat anything, he thought, because nothing could hurt him if he” what?

4. Vorarlberg is located in what current nation?

5. What war was Harry fighting in when he was in Anatolia?

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