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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. Of Harry, the narrator says, “It was never what he had done, but always” what?
(a) What he thought
(b) What he could do
(c) What he said he would do
(d) What he had regretted

2. Who argues with the Secretary about whether or not there is snow on the mountains in Harry’s flashback in the beginning of the story?
(a) Nansen
(b) Herr Lent
(c) Molo
(d) Hans

3. What kind of plane does Compton arrive in at the end of the story?
(a) A B-52.
(b) A Cessna
(c) An Airbus
(d) A Puss Moth

4. What word meaning a cargo truck does Compton use when he arrives at the end of the story?
(a) Catapult
(b) Vanguard
(c) Lorry
(d) Viaduct

5. How many children did Harry’s female companion have?
(a) 2
(b) 5
(c) 4
(d) 3

Short Answer 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?

2. 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?

3. As his companion dictates, Harry describes renting a trout stream after the war and says there were two ways to walk it. One was down the valley from where?

4. In Harry’s flashback to fleeing from a British gunner subaltern with a woman, they get into a taxi and go to what location along the Bosphorus?

5. 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”?

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