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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 is the name of Harry’s female companion in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?
(a) Sara
(b) Anna
(c) Marie
(d) Helen

2. When Harry offers Compton breakfast at the end of the story, Compton only accepts what?
(a) Eggs
(b) Coffee
(c) Tea
(d) Bacon

3. When Harry apologizes and tells his companion that he’s never loved anyone else the way he loved her, the narrator comments, “He slipped into the familiar lie he made” what by?
(a) His bread and butter
(b) His faithful reverie
(c) His novels
(d) His solicitations

4. In what part of his body is Harry afflicted in the story?
(a) His right leg
(b) His right arm
(c) His left leg
(d) His left arm

5. What kind of plane does Compton arrive in at the end of the story?
(a) A Puss Moth
(b) A Cessna
(c) An Airbus
(d) A B-52.

Short Answer Questions

1. Near Harry and his mistress’s camp under the trees, the narrator describes a nearly dry water hole where what animals come to in the mornings?

2. The woman that Harry took “away from a British gunner subaltern after a row” in one of his flashbacks is described as being from where?

3. Compton watches for holes made by what animals as he prepares to take off in the plane at the end of the story?

4. The narrator says of Harry in the second half of the story, “So this was how you died, in whispers that you” what?

5. In Harry’s flashback to living in the woodcutter’s house, what large porcelain object is described as filling half the room?

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