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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. 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?
(a) He was a taxi driver
(b) He was a taxidermist
(c) He was a butcher
(d) He was a military general

2. What does Harry say was burned out of the truck when arguing with his companion in the beginning of the story?
(a) A valve
(b) A piston
(c) A belt
(d) A bearing

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

4. When dictating to his companion, Harry describes living and writing in Paris in a top room of a hotel where he paid how much per month?
(a) 50 francs
(b) 100 francs
(c) 60 francs
(d) 10 francs

5. By what name does the author assert the western summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro is known as in the author’s preface to the story?
(a) Bakkie Bakvisse
(b) Aweh Baas
(c) Ngaje Ngai
(d) Befok Anties

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Harry recall “them” giving the deserter who arrived with the police right behind him in his flashback to living at the woodcutter’s house?

2. The narrator says of Harry in the beginning of the story that “he had no pain and with the pain the horror had gone and all he felt now was a great tiredness and” what?

3. Harry tells the woman in the beginning of the story that the vultures appeared the day that what happened?

4. What word, meaning a wine parlor, does the narrator use when describing the setting of Schrunz in Harry’s flashback?

5. Harry tells the woman that the first thing he did to deserve his fate was not putting what on his wound when he first scratched himself?

(see the answer key)

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