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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. What does Harry recall giving Williamson instead of shooting him when Williamson was dying from his injuries?
(a) A bottle of whiskey
(b) All his morphine pills
(c) His own rifle
(d) A love letter from his wife

2. The Rue Cardinal Lemoine is described as running in one direction to the river and in the other direction to the narrow crowded world of what street?
(a) The Rue de Rivoli
(b) The Rue de Gaillon
(c) The Rue des Ecoles
(d) The Rue Mouffetard

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

4. Of what does the narrator say Harry had sold “in one form or another, all his life and when your affections are not too involved you give much better value for the money”?
(a) Poetry
(b) Cowardice
(c) Lies
(d) Vitality

5. When describing his past to his companion who dictates, Harry describes the people of the Place Contrescarpe as being of two kinds: the drunkards and the what?
(a) L’envers
(b) Aeronauts
(c) Argots
(d) Sportifs

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does Harry’s companion say “That’s the good destruction. That’s the way we’re made to be destroyed”?

2. How is the chore boy described that was left at the ranch and told not to let anyone get any hay in Harry’s recollections?

3. By what name does Harry refer to his companion’s “people” during their argument in the beginning of the story?

4. The Sette Communi was a group of municipalities in the Veneto region that spoke what language?

5. What word from the narrative refers to the act or condition of giving tacit assent, agreement, or consent by silence or without objection?

(see the answer key)

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