View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Snows of Kilimanjaro.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Harry’s mistress is described as having a “well-known, well-loved face from Spur and” what magazine?
(a) Town and Country
(b) Society Weekly
(c) The New Yorker
(d) The Urban Socialite

2. The narrator says of Harry in the beginning of the story that “he had no pain and with the pain the horror had gone and all he felt now was a great tiredness and” what?
(a) Anger that this was the end of it
(b) Sorrow for all his mistakes
(c) Apathy about going on
(d) Irritation that he had to wait

3. Of Harry, the narrator says, “He could beat anything, he thought, because nothing could hurt him if he” what?
(a) Kept a straight face
(b) Acted tough enough
(c) Did not care
(d) Was strong

4. Of what does Harry’s companion say “That’s the good destruction. That’s the way we’re made to be destroyed”?
(a) In warfare
(b) In love
(c) In the press
(d) In bed

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In one flashback, Harry recalls “the man who had the fox to sell when they had walked into” what town?

2. Harry tells the woman in the beginning of “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” that he watched the way the vultures sailed carefully in case he ever wanted to do what?

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

4. What is the name of Harry’s female companion in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?

5. When Harry offers Compton breakfast at the end of the story, Compton only accepts what?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 317 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample