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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. The narrator says of Harry in the second half of the story, “So this was how you died, in whispers that you” what?
(a) Did not consider
(b) Did not make
(c) Did not hear
(d) Did not remember

6. Williamson is described as “a fat man, very brave, and a good officer, although addicted to” what?
(a) Fantastic shows
(b) Bad music
(c) Drink and gambling
(d) Women and sex

7. When Harry and his companion begin arguing in the story, he tells her that what were his sword and his armor?
(a) Her money
(b) Her love
(c) Her passion
(d) Their children

8. Schwarzwald is a wooded mountain range located in the southwest of what country?
(a) Romania
(b) Austria
(c) Germany
(d) Russia

9. Of what kind of animal does Harry’s companion say, “He’s the one makes the noise at night. I don’t mind it. They’re a filthy animal though”?
(a) A leopard
(b) A hyena
(c) A lion
(d) A vulture

10. When recalling his first, lost love, Harry recalls writing to tell her that he thought he saw her outside of what location and “it made him go all faint and sick inside”?
(a) The Capital
(b) The Regence
(c) The Pentagon
(d) The Louvre

11. Harry’s companion says in the beginning of the story, “I said I’d go anywhere you wanted. If you wanted to shoot we could have gone shooting” where?
(a) In Wyoming
(b) In Germany
(c) In Canada
(d) In Hungary

12. What kind of tree is Harry’s cot described as sitting under in the beginning of the story?
(a) A beech tree
(b) A palm tree
(c) A mimosa tree
(d) A coconut tree

13. When Harry first drifts into the flashback of his memories in the story, he sees in his mind a railway station in Karagatch. In what country is Karagatch located?
(a) Turkey
(b) Germany
(c) Spain
(d) Russia

14. The Hôtel de Crillon is located at the foot of what famous street?
(a) The Champs-Élysées
(b) Boulevard Haussmann
(c) The Rue de Rennes
(d) The Rue de Passy

15. 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) Peroxide
(b) A bandage
(c) Iodine
(d) Alcohol

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is “that old bastard” from that Harry describes as having beaten the chore boy in Harry’s memories of the ranch?

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. On what continent is Mount Kilimanjaro located?

5. Harry tells his mistress in the story, “Love is a dunghill. And I’m the” what?

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