View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Snows of Kilimanjaro.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator says that Harry planned this safari in the hopes that he could burn what off his soul in “the way a fighter went to the mountains to work and train in order to burn it out of his body”?
(a) Damage
(b) Sloth
(c) Weakness
(d) Fat

2. Harry’s companion tells him when she returns from hunting, “The boys have the wood all ready and the grass to make” what?
(a) The hut
(b) The smudge
(c) The gurney
(d) The beds

3. The narrator says of Harry in the story, “Now if this was how it ended, and he knew it was, he must not turn like some snake biting itself because” of what reason?
(a) Its back was broken
(b) It feared itself
(c) It was cold
(d) It was starving to death

4. As his companion dictates, Harry describes renting a trout stream after the war and says there were two ways to walk it. One was down the valley from where?
(a) Liezen
(b) Enns
(c) Triberg
(d) Steyr

5. What kind of tree is Harry’s cot described as sitting under in the beginning of the story?
(a) A coconut tree
(b) A beech tree
(c) A palm tree
(d) A mimosa tree

Short Answer Questions

1. One of Harry’s flashbacks describes a trip for Anatolia. On this trip, Harry remembers riding all day through fields of what kinds of flowers?

2. When Harry’s mistress says in the beginning of the story, “Please tell me what I can do,” Harry responds that she can take his leg off or do what?

3. Williamson is described as “a fat man, very brave, and a good officer, although addicted to” what?

4. Harry recalls that Williamson was hit by a stick bomb thrown by someone in what kind of patrol in his flashbacks?

5. What do the two boys have slung and carry as they follow Harry’s companion back to the camp when she returns in the evening?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 351 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample