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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. By what title does the African servant refer to Harry’s female companion in the story?
(a) Abayomi
(b) Memsahib
(c) Binata
(d) Abasi

2. What term does the narrator use in describing the police that followed the deserter to the woodcutter’s cabin in Harry’s flashback?
(a) Mercenaries
(b) Gendarmes
(c) Pulapol
(d) Patrol

3. In one of Harry’s flashbacks, he recalls talking to a member of the Kaiser Jägers above the saw-mill about the fighting on what mountain?
(a) Mount Pasubio
(b) Mount Everest
(c) Mount Kilimanjaro
(d) Mount McKinley

4. Harry says that he and his mistress hired whom instead of a good mechanic?
(a) A swindler from Europe
(b) A voodoo goddess
(c) A drunken lorry driver
(d) A half-baked Kikuyu driver

5. Of what kind of animal does Harry’s companion say, “He’s the one makes the noise at night. I don’t mind it. They’re a filthy animal though”?
(a) A leopard
(b) A lion
(c) A hyena
(d) A vulture

Short Answer Questions

1. What drinks do Harry and his companion have after she’s returned from hunting in the evening?

2. Harry scratched himself as he and his companion were moving forward to photograph what animals?

3. Who does Harry consider “were dull and they drank too much, or they played too much backgammon”?

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

5. What kind of plane does Compton arrive in at the end of the story?

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