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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. When Harry’s mistress says in the beginning of the story, “Please tell me what I can do,” Harry responds that she can take his leg off or do what?
(a) Write out his will
(b) Leave him alone
(c) Call his daughter
(d) Shoot him

2. What happened to the log house that Harry describes to his companion as she dictates in the second half of the story?
(a) It burned down
(b) It was sold
(c) It was flooded in a storm
(d) It was foreclosed by the bank

3. Of death, Harry says in the beginning of the story, “The remarkable thing is that it’s” what?
(a) Chilling
(b) Cold
(c) Frightening
(d) Painless

4. Harry scratched himself as he and his companion were moving forward to photograph what animals?
(a) Zebras
(b) Hyenas
(c) Vultures
(d) Waterbuck

5. The narrator says of Harry in the second half of the story, “So this was how you died, in whispers that you” what?
(a) Did not consider
(b) Did not make
(c) Did not hear
(d) Did not remember

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is described in a flashback of Christmas day as having “flown across the lines to bomb the Austrian officers' leave train, machine-gunning them as they scattered and ran”?

2. What is the name of a clear, colorless fruit brandy made from morello cherries that is described in the story?

3. What is the name of the African servant to Harry and his mistress in the story?

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

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?

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