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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. Harry tells the woman in the beginning of the story that the vultures appeared the day that what happened?
(a) The day they arrived in Africa
(b) The day they got engaged
(c) The day the truck broke down
(d) The day they arrived in Egypt

2. Compton tells Harry at the end of the story that he’ll have to stop where to refuel?
(a) Cairo
(b) Paris
(c) Arusha
(d) Zurich

3. Who does Harry’s companion call for when she awakens at the end of the story?
(a) Nansen
(b) Molo
(c) Hans
(d) Lent

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?
(a) Viltas Villari
(b) Maya Villari
(c) Rimmily Hissa
(d) Karanfil Sk

5. How long ago was it that Harry scratched himself, leading ultimately to his current condition?
(a) 1 week ago
(b) 2 days ago
(c) 5 days ago
(d) 2 weeks ago

Short Answer Questions

1. What location does Harry describe to his dictating companion, where “the flower sellers dyed their flowers in the street and the dye ran over the paving where the autobus started”?

2. What word does the narrator use in the beginning of the story to refer to a type of African gazelles?

3. The author’s preface to “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” states that Mount Kilimanjaro is how many feet high?

4. Harry’s companion tells him when she returns with meat that she’s been destroyed how many times before?

5. When dictating to his companion, Harry describes living and writing in Paris in a top room of a hotel where he paid how much per month?

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