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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do the two boys have slung and carry as they follow Harry’s companion back to the camp when she returns in the evening?
(a) A cougar
(b) A zebra
(c) A Tommie
(d) A lion

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

4. How is the chore boy described that was left at the ranch and told not to let anyone get any hay in Harry’s recollections?
(a) A half-wit
(b) Dumb and deaf
(c) A tall buck
(d) A little nerdy squirt

5. Compton watches for holes made by what animals as he prepares to take off in the plane at the end of the story?
(a) Zebras
(b) Warthogs
(c) Boas
(d) Hyenas

6. Of his female companion, Harry thinks to himself as she returns to camp, “she was not pretty, but he liked her” what?
(a) Face
(b) Lips
(c) Hands
(d) Back

7. 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 father
(b) Harry’s great-grandfather
(c) Harry’s grandfather
(d) Harry’s uncle

8. 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) Anger that this was the end of it
(c) Irritation that he had to wait
(d) Apathy about going on

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

10. 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 make
(b) Did not consider
(c) Did not hear
(d) Did not remember

11. The Dada movement was originated by a group of artists and poets associated with what café?
(a) The White Horse Tavern
(b) The Café Vordergasse
(c) The Café Fribourg
(d) The Cabaret Voltaire

12. When Harry apologizes and tells his companion that he’s never loved anyone else the way he loved her, the narrator comments, “He slipped into the familiar lie he made” what by?
(a) His bread and butter
(b) His solicitations
(c) His novels
(d) His faithful reverie

13. In Harry’s flashback to living in the woodcutter’s house, he recalls sleeping on mattresses filled with what?
(a) Beech leaves
(b) Palm leaves
(c) Tobacco leaves
(d) Juniper leaves

14. Harry says that he and his mistress hired whom instead of a good mechanic?
(a) A half-baked Kikuyu driver
(b) A swindler from Europe
(c) A voodoo goddess
(d) A drunken lorry driver

15. The author notes in the preface to the story that the frozen carcass of what animal lies close to the western summit of Kilimanjaro?
(a) A leopard
(b) A lion
(c) A hyena
(d) A wildebeest

Short Answer Questions

1. Compton tells Harry at the end of the story that he’ll have to stop where to refuel?

2. Of Harry, the narrator says, “He could beat anything, he thought, because nothing could hurt him if he” what?

3. 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?

4. When was Black’s Medical Dictionary first published?

5. Of Harry, the narrator says, “It was never what he had done, but always” what?

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