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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. When Harry begins dictating to his companion, he describes a bell on a pole by the door of the log house used to do what?
(a) Call the guards to their stations
(b) Frighten away bears
(c) Call people in to meals
(d) Warn of a bomb raid

2. For how long was Harry’s group snow-bound in Harry’s flashback to his time at the mountain huts by Schrunz?
(a) 2 weeks
(b) 3 weeks
(c) 2 days
(d) 1 week

3. By what name does Harry refer to his companion’s “people” during their argument in the beginning of the story?
(a) Your ridiculous, idiotic West Monroe, Louisiana people
(b) Your goddamned Old Westbury Saratoga, Palm Beach people
(c) Your goddamned WASP New England people
(d) Your godforsaken North Country Irish people

4. 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?
(a) Use them in a story
(b) Use them in a song
(c) Paint them in a picture
(d) Use them in a sculpture

5. When Harry thinks back to the railway station in Karagatch, he recalls the headlight of what cutting through the dark?
(a) The British Pullman
(b) The Simplon-Orient
(c) The Royal Rajasthan
(d) The Royal Scotsman

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Harry say was burned out of the truck when arguing with his companion in the beginning of the story?

2. Harry scratched himself as he and his companion were moving forward to photograph what animals?

3. The author notes in the preface to the story that the frozen carcass of what animal lies close to the western summit of Kilimanjaro?

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

5. Of Harry’s friends, the narrator says, “The people he knew now were all much more comfortable when he did not” what?

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