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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. Who does Harry consider “were dull and they drank too much, or they played too much backgammon”?
(a) Europeans
(b) Americans
(c) Women
(d) The rich

2. The author notes in the preface to the story that the frozen carcass of what animal lies close to the western summit of Kilimanjaro?
(a) A lion
(b) A leopard
(c) A wildebeest
(d) A hyena

3. What does Harry regret having done “so much that he blunted the edge of his perceptions”?
(a) Drinking
(b) Gossiping
(c) Gambling
(d) Drugs

4. What term does the narrator use in describing the police that followed the deserter to the woodcutter’s cabin in Harry’s flashback?
(a) Mercenaries
(b) Pulapol
(c) Gendarmes
(d) Patrol

5. In Harry’s flashback to living in the woodcutter’s house, what large porcelain object is described as filling half the room?
(a) A bed stand
(b) A bathtub
(c) A stove
(d) A table

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is described in a flashback of Christmas day as having “flown across the lines to bomb the Austrian officers' leave train, machine-gunning them as they scattered and ran”?

2. Harry’s mistress tells him in the beginning of the story that Black’s Medical Dictionary says that what is bad for him in his condition?

3. Compton tells Harry at the end of the story that he’ll have to stop where to refuel?

4. What location does Harry describe to his dictating companion, where “the flower sellers dyed their flowers in the street and the dye ran over the paving where the autobus started”?

5. Of Harry’s companion, the narrator says, “She loved anything that was exciting, that involved a change of scene, where there were new people and where things were” what?

(see the answer key)

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