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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) Camels
(c) Alpacas
(d) Zebras

2. What does Harry recall “them” giving the deserter who arrived with the police right behind him in his flashback to living at the woodcutter’s house?
(a) A rifle
(b) Wool socks
(c) A thrashing
(d) A blanket

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

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

5. 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) Curiosity
(b) Gratitude
(c) Talent
(d) Love

6. Who is described in a flashback of Christmas day as having “flown across the lines to bomb the Austrian officers' leave train, machine-gunning them as they scattered and ran”?
(a) Williamson
(b) Compton
(c) Julian
(d) Barker

7. The narrator refers to Harry’s mistress as the “kindly caretaker and destroyer of” what?
(a) His ego
(b) His talent
(c) His manhood
(d) His lust

8. 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) Naples
(b) Cairo
(c) Paris
(d) Asalone

9. The narrator says that Harry planned this safari in the hopes that he could burn what off his soul in “the way a fighter went to the mountains to work and train in order to burn it out of his body”?
(a) Fat
(b) Damage
(c) Weakness
(d) Sloth

10. The Sette Communi was a group of municipalities in the Veneto region that spoke what language?
(a) The Frisian language
(b) The Sami language
(c) The Cimbrian language
(d) The Udmurt language

11. How would you describe the narrator of “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?
(a) It is related from a first-person, omniscient narrator
(b) It is related from a first-person, limited narrator
(c) It is related from a third-person, omniscient narrator
(d) It is related from a third-person, limited narrator

12. Where does Compton appear to be flying Harry to at the end of the story?
(a) The train station at Paris
(b) The rescue center in Arusha
(c) The hospital in Bengasi
(d) The top of Mt. Kilimanjaro

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

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

15. Harry’s companion tells him when she returns from hunting, “The boys have the wood all ready and the grass to make” what?
(a) The hut
(b) The beds
(c) The smudge
(d) The gurney

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

2. The author notes in the preface to the story that the frozen carcass of what animal lies close to the western summit of Kilimanjaro?

3. What French word does the narrator use to describe drunkenness in the narrative?

4. 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”?

5. Many claim that the Dada movement began where?

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