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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. What is the name of Harry’s female companion in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?
(a) Helen
(b) Sara
(c) Anna
(d) Marie

2. In Harry’s flashback to the fighting in Anatolia, the narrator remarks, “That was the day he'd first seen dead men wearing white ballet skirts and upturned shoes with” what on them?
(a) Buckles
(b) Pompons
(c) Bullets
(d) Letters

3. The narrator says of Harry in the beginning of the story that “he had no pain and with the pain the horror had gone and all he felt now was a great tiredness and” what?
(a) Sorrow for all his mistakes
(b) Apathy about going on
(c) Irritation that he had to wait
(d) Anger that this was the end of it

4. In Harry’s flashback to Schrunz on Christmas day, the narrator describes a glacier above what mountain huts?
(a) The Madlenerhaus
(b) The Berghaus-Verein
(c) The Chamanna Dal Linard
(d) The Bodenalpenhaus

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Of Harry’s companion, the narrator says, “She loved anything that was exciting, that involved a change of scene, where there were new people and where things were” what?

2. What does Harry’s mistress repeatedly ask him if he’d like her to do in the beginning of the story?

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

4. In one of Harry’s flashbacks, he recalls talking to a member of the Kaiser Jägers above the saw-mill about the fighting on what mountain?

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

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