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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 term does the narrator use in describing the police that followed the deserter to the woodcutter’s cabin in Harry’s flashback?
(a) Gendarmes
(b) Mercenaries
(c) Pulapol
(d) Patrol

2. Who is described in Harry’s flashback as having “lost it all” while playing cards by lantern light during a blizzard at the mountain huts by Schrunz?
(a) Herr Lent
(b) Herr Williamson
(c) Herr Hans
(d) Herr Julian

3. 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 House of God
(b) The Scaffold of Life
(c) The Den of the Dragon
(d) The Palace of Kings

4. Harry questions in the beginning of the story whether it is sight or what that brings the vultures in?
(a) Empathy
(b) Intelligence
(c) Scent
(d) Sound

5. What does Harry say “makes the time pass” in the beginning of the story?
(a) Quarrelling
(b) Making love
(c) Writing
(d) Singing

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

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

3. What river runs through Paris?

4. In one of Harry’s flashbacks, he recalls talking to a member of the Kaiser Jägers above the saw-mill about the fighting on what mountain?

5. What is the powdered milk brand that Harry’s companion says she’ll have the servants mash potatoes with in the narrative?

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