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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Harry offers Compton breakfast at the end of the story, Compton only accepts what?
(a) Eggs
(b) Coffee
(c) Bacon
(d) Tea

2. How are the flashbacks into Harry’s past delineated from the rest of the narrative in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?
(a) They are italicized
(b) They are in parentheses
(c) They are in quotations
(d) They are in boldface

3. Of what does the narrator say Harry had sold “in one form or another, all his life and when your affections are not too involved you give much better value for the money”?
(a) Poetry
(b) Vitality
(c) Lies
(d) Cowardice

4. What word from the story refers to tight-fitting trousers worn primarily for horseback riding?
(a) Dongles
(b) Derbies
(c) Jodhpurs
(d) Patsies

5. The Dada movement was born out of reaction to what war?
(a) World War II
(b) World War I
(c) The Korean War
(d) The French and Indian War

6. Mount Kilimanjaro is located in what country currently?
(a) Mali
(b) Tanzania
(c) Namibia
(d) Nigeria

7. One of Harry’s mistress’s children was killed how?
(a) In a hurricane
(b) In a plane crash
(c) In battle
(d) In a car accident

8. Harry’s companion tells him early in the story that she wishes they’d gone to what city that Harry loves instead?
(a) To Amsterdam
(b) To Paris
(c) To New York
(d) To London

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

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

11. Harry’s mistress tells him in the beginning of the story that Black’s Medical Dictionary says that what is bad for him in his condition?
(a) Alcohol
(b) Laying still
(c) Antibiotics
(d) Talking

12. Harry’s “femme de ménage” in Paris is described as having said, “It is the wife of the working man who suffers from” what?
(a) His lack of education
(b) This shortening of hours
(c) The government’s greed
(d) His adulterous affairs

13. In one of Harry’s flashbacks, he recalls talking to a member of the Kaiser Jägers above the saw-mill about the attack on Perticara and where?
(a) Cairo
(b) Paris
(c) Naples
(d) Asalone

14. 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 grandfather
(c) Harry’s great-grandfather
(d) Harry’s father

15. What word does the narrator use in the beginning of the story to refer to a type of African gazelles?
(a) Ngalis
(b) Egrets
(c) Hyenas
(d) Tommies

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. By what name does the African servant call Harry?

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?

4. What word meaning a cargo truck does Compton use when he arrives at the end of the story?

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

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