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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 word from the story refers to tight-fitting trousers worn primarily for horseback riding?
(a) Derbies
(b) Dongles
(c) Jodhpurs
(d) Patsies

2. What is the name of the African servant to Harry and his mistress in the story?
(a) Nansen
(b) Molo
(c) Hans
(d) Bwana

3. When dictating to his companion, Harry describes riding a bike up the only asphalted street in his quarter of Paris which led to a tall hotel where who had died?
(a) Napoleon Bonaparte
(b) Marie LeVeaux
(c) Paul Verlaine
(d) Marie Antoinette

4. When was Black’s Medical Dictionary first published?
(a) 1911
(b) 1885
(c) 1723
(d) 1906

5. Near Harry and his mistress’s camp under the trees, the narrator describes a nearly dry water hole where what animals come to in the mornings?
(a) Sea eagles
(b) Vultures
(c) Sand grouse
(d) Elephants

Short Answer Questions

1. When dictating to his companion, Harry describes living in an apartment where you could see the wood and coal man’s place. What did the wood and coal man also sell?

2. The bicycle racer that Harry describes to his dictating companion is said to have won what place in the Paris-Tours?

3. For how long was Harry’s group snow-bound in Harry’s flashback to his time at the mountain huts by Schrunz?

4. What does the German word “jäger” translate to in English?

5. It is noted of Harry’s past, “It was strange, too, wasn't it, that when he fell in love with another woman, that woman should always have more” what “than the last one?”

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