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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. 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?
(a) Iodine
(b) A bandage
(c) Peroxide
(d) Alcohol

2. By what name does the African servant call Harry?
(a) Mbanza
(b) Bwana
(c) Tamgu
(d) Moco’o.

3. When recalling his heartbreak over losing his first, lost love, Harry recalls picking up a girl outside of what Parisian restaurant?
(a) Jean George’s
(b) The Four Seasons
(c) Maxim’s
(d) Valjean’s

4. In what year was “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” adapted and produced to film, starring Gregory Peck as Harry?
(a) 1948
(b) 1942
(c) 1952
(d) 1936

5. What word meaning a cargo truck does Compton use when he arrives at the end of the story?
(a) Vanguard
(b) Viaduct
(c) Lorry
(d) Catapult

Short Answer Questions

1. Harry’s mistress tells him in the beginning of “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” “You can’t die if you don’t” what?

2. Of Harry, the narrator says in the beginning of the story, “Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until” when?

3. Harry questions in the beginning of the story whether it is sight or what that brings the vultures in?

4. How many winters does the narrator say Harry lived in the Arlberg?

5. What does Harry recall giving Williamson instead of shooting him when Williamson was dying from his injuries?

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