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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) Jodhpurs
(b) Derbies
(c) Patsies
(d) Dongles

2. Where does Harry recall living at Christmas in a woodcutter’s house?
(a) Gauertal
(b) Zurich
(c) Maine
(d) Connecticut

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

4. What word, meaning a wine parlor, does the narrator use when describing the setting of Schrunz in Harry’s flashback?
(a) Vinstube
(b) Vin de Syrah
(c) Weinstube
(d) Vinlonge

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Harry scratched himself where on his body, leading to his current condition?

3. What animals does Harry see from the plane that are described as “big-headed dots seeming to climb as they moved in long fingers across the plain”?

4. The Rue Cardinal Lemoine is described as running in one direction to the river and in the other direction to the narrow crowded world of what street?

5. Harry and the woman are waiting for the arrival of what in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?

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