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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. Who is described as having owned the guns in the log house that Harry describes to his companion as she dictates in the second half of the story?
(a) Harry’s uncle
(b) Harry’s father
(c) Harry’s great-grandfather
(d) Harry’s grandfather

2. Compton tells Harry at the end of the story that he’ll have to stop where to refuel?
(a) Paris
(b) Zurich
(c) Arusha
(d) Cairo

3. Of Harry, the narrator says, “It was not so much that he lied as that” what?
(a) He needed her money
(b) He no longer knew the truth
(c) He had nothing else to say
(d) There was no truth to tell

4. Harry tells his mistress in the story, “Love is a dunghill. And I’m the” what?
(a) Mule that eats the hay
(b) Lucky man who gets to step in it
(c) Worms underneath wriggling for freedom
(d) Cock that gets on it to crow

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) Don’t be obtuse
(b) That’s cowardly
(c) I’m leaving
(d) It doesn’t make it easier for me

Short Answer Questions

1. In Harry’s flashback to Schrunz on Christmas day, the narrator describes a glacier above what mountain huts?

2. Of Harry and his mistress, the narrator says, “It was not her fault that when he went to her he was” what?

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

4. What is the name of the African servant to Harry and his mistress in the story?

5. When Harry’s mistress tells him in the beginning of the story that he’s not going to die, he responds by saying, “Don’t be silly. I’m dying now. Ask those bastards.” What does Harry point to when he says this?

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