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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 tells the woman in the beginning of the story that the vultures appeared the day that what happened?
(a) The day they arrived in Egypt
(b) The day they arrived in Africa
(c) The day they got engaged
(d) The day the truck broke down

2. Of death, Harry says in the beginning of the story, “The remarkable thing is that it’s” what?
(a) Frightening
(b) Painless
(c) Chilling
(d) Cold

3. When was Black’s Medical Dictionary first published?
(a) 1885
(b) 1906
(c) 1911
(d) 1723

4. Where is “that old bastard” from that Harry describes as having beaten the chore boy in Harry’s memories of the ranch?
(a) The Willows
(b) The Forks
(c) The Prairies
(d) The Canyons

5. Of what does the narrator say Harry had sold “in one form or another, all his life and when your affections are not too involved you give much better value for the money”?
(a) Lies
(b) Poetry
(c) Vitality
(d) Cowardice

Short Answer Questions

1. When Harry thinks back to the railway station in Karagatch, he recalls the headlight of what cutting through the dark?

2. In Harry’s flashback to fleeing from a British gunner subaltern with a woman, they get into a taxi and go to what location along the Bosphorus?

3. Williamson is described as “a fat man, very brave, and a good officer, although addicted to” what?

4. Harry says that he and his mistress hired whom instead of a good mechanic?

5. As Harry describes his past for his companion to dictate in the second half of the story, he describes the husband of the woman who ran the Bal Musette as having what occupation?

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