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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’s companion tells him when she returns from hunting, “The boys have the wood all ready and the grass to make” what?
(a) The beds
(b) The hut
(c) The smudge
(d) The gurney

2. Harry’s companion tells him when she returns with meat that she’s been destroyed how many times before?
(a) Two or three
(b) Three or four
(c) Countless
(d) Five or six

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

4. The narrator says of Harry’s female companion that she liked to read in the evening before dinner and she drank what while she read?
(a) Wine
(b) Tea
(c) Rum and soda
(d) Scotch and soda

5. When Harry’s mistress tells him in the beginning of the story that he’s not going to die, he responds by saying, “Don’t be silly. I’m dying now. Ask those bastards.” What does Harry point to when he says this?
(a) The vultures
(b) The flies
(c) The mosquitoes
(d) The hyenas

Short Answer Questions

1. In what part of his body is Harry afflicted in the story?

2. By what title does the African servant refer to Harry’s female companion in the story?

3. The narrator says of Harry in the second half of the story, “So this was how you died, in whispers that you” what?

4. When recalling his first, lost love, Harry recalls writing her a letter and sending it where?

5. Many claim that the Dada movement began where?

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