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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 does the phrase “Sans Voir” from the story translate to in English?
(a) Without voice
(b) Without seeing
(c) Without love
(d) Without sound
2. The name of the western summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro translates to what in English, according to the author’s preface to the story?
(a) The Scaffold of Life
(b) The Palace of Kings
(c) The House of God
(d) The Den of the Dragon
3. By what title does the African servant refer to Harry’s female companion in the story?
(a) Abayomi
(b) Abasi
(c) Memsahib
(d) Binata
4. Harry recalls that Williamson was hit by a stick bomb thrown by someone in what kind of patrol in his flashbacks?
(a) A French patrol
(b) A German patrol
(c) A British patrol
(d) A Japanese patrol
5. How are the flashbacks into Harry’s past delineated from the rest of the narrative in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?
(a) They are in parentheses
(b) They are in quotations
(c) They are in boldface
(d) They are italicized
Short Answer Questions
1. Of what does the narrator say Harry had sold “in one form or another, all his life and when your affections are not too involved you give much better value for the money”?
2. What does Harry say was burned out of the truck when arguing with his companion in the beginning of the story?
3. What kind of tree is Harry’s cot described as sitting under in the beginning of the story?
4. When Harry’s mistress tells him in the beginning of the story that he’s not going to die, he responds by saying, “Don’t be silly. I’m dying now. Ask those bastards.” What does Harry point to when he says this?
5. 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?
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