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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 is the powdered milk brand that Harry’s companion says she’ll have the servants mash potatoes with in the narrative?
(a) Atkins
(b) Klim
(c) Nestle
(d) Dewberry’s

2. As Harry dies in the end of the story, his companion hears what animal stop whimpering and begin to make a strange human sound?
(a) A leopard
(b) A hyena
(c) A vulture
(d) A zebra

3. Who does Harry recall as being poor and having been in “romantic awe of him” in his flashbacks to his past?
(a) Julian
(b) Hans
(c) Nansen
(d) Molo

4. Harry notes to the woman in the beginning of the story that this is the first time the vultures have done what?
(a) Called out to other birds
(b) Eaten the corpse of an antelope
(c) Landed on the ground
(d) Flown in circles

5. When Harry offers Compton breakfast at the end of the story, Compton only accepts what?
(a) Eggs
(b) Coffee
(c) Bacon
(d) Tea

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Harry’s mistress’s reply when he says in the beginning of the story, “I don’t want to move. There is no sense in moving now except to make it easier for you”?

2. In Harry’s flashback to the fighting in Anatolia, the narrator remarks, “That was the day he'd first seen dead men wearing white ballet skirts and upturned shoes with” what on them?

3. Of whom does Harry think, “You said that you could write about these people; that you were not really of them but a spy in their country”?

4. 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?

5. What word meaning a cargo truck does Compton use when he arrives at the end of the story?

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