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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 does the word “skischule” translate to in English?
(a) Ski school
(b) Wine parlor
(c) Hot dog stand
(d) Butcher

2. What drink does Harry ask the African servant to bring him in the beginning of the story?
(a) Whiskey-soda
(b) Lemonade
(c) Ginger ale
(d) Rum and soda

3. Compton watches for holes made by what animals as he prepares to take off in the plane at the end of the story?
(a) Warthogs
(b) Zebras
(c) Boas
(d) Hyenas

4. Where does Compton appear to be flying Harry to at the end of the story?
(a) The top of Mt. Kilimanjaro
(b) The rescue center in Arusha
(c) The hospital in Bengasi
(d) The train station at Paris

5. The narrator says of Harry in the story, “Now if this was how it ended, and he knew it was, he must not turn like some snake biting itself because” of what reason?
(a) It was starving to death
(b) It was cold
(c) It feared itself
(d) Its back was broken

Short Answer Questions

1. When recalling his heartbreak over losing his first, lost love, Harry recalls picking up a girl outside of what Parisian restaurant?

2. 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”?

3. Harry tells his mistress in the story, “Love is a dunghill. And I’m the” what?

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

5. Of Harry’s old life, the narrator says that he had traded it for what when he fell into his relationship with his female companion?

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