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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. How far does Harry recall driving by sled to town with the chore boy and the corpse of the man that beat the chore boy in his memories of the ranch?
(a) 20 miles
(b) 10 miles
(c) 60 miles
(d) 30 miles

2. Of Harry, the narrator says, “He could beat anything, he thought, because nothing could hurt him if he” what?
(a) Was strong
(b) Acted tough enough
(c) Kept a straight face
(d) Did not care

3. 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?
(a) Poppies
(b) Pansies
(c) Roses
(d) Honeysuckle

4. As Harry dies in the end of the story, his female companion is dreaming about the house located where?
(a) Long Island
(b) New Hampshire
(c) London
(d) Paris

5. Vorarlberg is located in what current nation?
(a) Russia
(b) Austria
(c) Germany
(d) Poland

Short Answer Questions

1. By what name does the author assert the western summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro is known as in the author’s preface to the story?

2. What drink does Harry ask the African servant to bring him in the beginning of the story?

3. What animals does Harry see from the plane that are described as “big-headed dots seeming to climb as they moved in long fingers across the plain”?

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?

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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