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

2. Mount Kilimanjaro is located in what country currently?
(a) Nigeria
(b) Namibia
(c) Tanzania
(d) Mali

3. In his first flashbacks of memory, Harry recalls “looking out the window and seeing snow on the mountains in” what country?
(a) Switzerland
(b) The United States
(c) Peru
(d) Bulgaria

4. Where is Monte Corona located?
(a) Italy
(b) Spain
(c) Austria
(d) Portugal

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 boldface
(c) They are in quotations
(d) They are italicized

Short Answer Questions

1. When Harry begins dictating to his companion, he describes a log house on a hill above the lake. What kind of trees are described as running from the house to the dock?

2. Of Harry, the narrator says, “He could beat anything, he thought, because nothing could hurt him if he” what?

3. Of what does Harry’s companion say “That’s the good destruction. That’s the way we’re made to be destroyed”?

4. What affliction has Harry contracted in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?

5. When Harry apologizes and tells his companion that he’s never loved anyone else the way he loved her, the narrator comments, “He slipped into the familiar lie he made” what by?

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