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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 kind of hat is Compton described as wearing at the end of the story?
(a) A blue fedora
(b) A brown felt hat
(c) A grey safari hat
(d) A black top hat

2. The author’s preface to “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” states that Mount Kilimanjaro is how many feet high?
(a) 18,210
(b) 15,356
(c) 19,710
(d) 20,325

3. Harry’s mistress tells him in the beginning of the story that Black’s Medical Dictionary says that what is bad for him in his condition?
(a) Talking
(b) Antibiotics
(c) Alcohol
(d) Laying still

4. How far does Harry recall driving by sled to town with the chore boy and the corpse of the man that beat the chore boy in his memories of the ranch?
(a) 20 miles
(b) 30 miles
(c) 60 miles
(d) 10 miles

5. What does Harry’s mistress repeatedly ask him if he’d like her to do in the beginning of the story?
(a) Call his mother
(b) Read to him
(c) Bathe him
(d) Sing for him

Short Answer Questions

1. Of his female companion, Harry thinks to himself as she returns to camp, “she was not pretty, but he liked her” what?

2. Compton tells Harry at the end of the story that he’ll have to stop where to refuel?

3. What happened to the log house that Harry describes to his companion as she dictates in the second half of the story?

4. When Harry first drifts into the flashback of his memories in the story, he sees in his mind a railway station in Karagatch. In what country is Karagatch located?

5. What illness did Hemingway contract during a 1933 trip to Africa that he later reflected in his story “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?

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