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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. By what title does the African servant refer to Harry’s female companion in the story?
(a) Binata
(b) Abayomi
(c) Abasi
(d) Memsahib

2. Harry claims that the man whom they hired to check out the truck didn’t check what?
(a) The axle
(b) The tires
(c) The gas
(d) The oil

3. What word from the narrative refers to the act or condition of giving tacit assent, agreement, or consent by silence or without objection?
(a) Acquiescence
(b) Arrogance
(c) Allusion
(d) Obliqueness

4. In what year was “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” adapted and produced to film, starring Gregory Peck as Harry?
(a) 1942
(b) 1952
(c) 1936
(d) 1948

5. When dictating to his companion, Harry describes living in an apartment where you could see the wood and coal man’s place. What did the wood and coal man also sell?
(a) Butchered hens
(b) Olives
(c) Bad wine
(d) Pigs

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Harry say “makes the time pass” in the beginning of the story?

3. When Harry begins dictating to his companion, he describes a log house on a hill above the lake. What kind of trees are described as running from the house to the dock?

4. What composer does Harry say to his companion “wrote the words and music. This knowledge that you’re going mad for me”?

5. In Harry’s flashback to the fighting in Anatolia, the narrator remarks, “That was the day he'd first seen dead men wearing white ballet skirts and upturned shoes with” what on them?

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