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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. It is noted of Harry’s past, “It was strange, too, wasn't it, that when he fell in love with another woman, that woman should always have more” what “than the last one?”
(a) Intelligence
(b) Talent
(c) Beauty
(d) Money

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

3. When Harry thinks back to the railway station in Karagatch, he recalls that he was leaving what geographical area after the retreat?
(a) Macedonia
(b) Scythia
(c) Illyria
(d) Thrace

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

5. Harry tells the woman that the first thing he did to deserve his fate was not putting what on his wound when he first scratched himself?
(a) Alcohol
(b) Peroxide
(c) A bandage
(d) Iodine

Short Answer Questions

1. In Harry’s flashback to living in the woodcutter’s house, he recalls sleeping on mattresses filled with what?

2. The narrator says of Harry’s female companion that she “loved him dearly as a writer, as a man, as a companion and as” what?

3. Harry questions in the beginning of the story whether it is sight or what that brings the vultures in?

4. 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?

5. The narrator says that Harry planned this safari in the hopes that he could burn what off his soul in “the way a fighter went to the mountains to work and train in order to burn it out of his body”?

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