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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. Where does Compton appear to be flying Harry to at the end of the story?
(a) The rescue center in Arusha
(b) The top of Mt. Kilimanjaro
(c) The hospital in Bengasi
(d) The train station at Paris

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

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

4. Harry tells the woman in the beginning of “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” that he watched the way the vultures sailed carefully in case he ever wanted to do what?
(a) Use them in a song
(b) Use them in a sculpture
(c) Use them in a story
(d) Paint them in a picture

5. 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) Talking
(b) Laying still
(c) Antibiotics
(d) Alcohol

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. Harry tells his companion in the evening as they sit by the fire, “You know the only thing I've never lost is” what?

3. 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?

4. Harry recalls that Williamson was hit by a stick bomb thrown by someone in what kind of patrol in his flashbacks?

5. 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?

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