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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 his companion in the evening as they sit by the fire, “You know the only thing I've never lost is” what?
(a) Love
(b) Talent
(c) Curiosity
(d) Gratitude

2. What kind of African equids does Harry see when he looks out over the plains in the beginning of the story?
(a) Lemurs
(b) Camels
(c) Zebras
(d) Alpacas

3. On what continent is Mount Kilimanjaro located?
(a) South America
(b) Asia
(c) Europe
(d) Africa

4. The woman that Harry took “away from a British gunner subaltern after a row” in one of his flashbacks is described as being from where?
(a) Germany
(b) Brazil
(c) Argentina
(d) Armenia

5. What is Harry’s mistress’s reply when he says in the beginning of the story, “I don’t want to move. There is no sense in moving now except to make it easier for you”?
(a) It doesn’t make it easier for me
(b) I’m leaving
(c) Don’t be obtuse
(d) That’s cowardly

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from the narrative refers to the act or condition of giving tacit assent, agreement, or consent by silence or without objection?

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

3. Harry’s mistress is described as having a “well-known, well-loved face from Spur and” what magazine?

4. Who argues with the Secretary about whether or not there is snow on the mountains in Harry’s flashback in the beginning of the story?

5. 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”?

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