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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the word “skischule” translate to in English?
(a) Ski school
(b) Butcher
(c) Hot dog stand
(d) Wine parlor

2. By what name does the African servant call Harry?
(a) Bwana
(b) Tamgu
(c) Moco’o.
(d) Mbanza

3. Who does Harry’s companion call for when she awakens at the end of the story?
(a) Lent
(b) Hans
(c) Nansen
(d) Molo

4. When was the Hôtel de Crillon opened in Paris?
(a) 1825
(b) 1909
(c) 1915
(d) 1925

5. The name of the western summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro translates to what in English, according to the author’s preface to the story?
(a) The Palace of Kings
(b) The Scaffold of Life
(c) The House of God
(d) The Den of the Dragon

6. 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) Weakness
(b) Sloth
(c) Fat
(d) Damage

7. 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) Asalone
(c) Cairo
(d) Paris

8. What French word does the narrator use to describe drunkenness in the narrative?
(a) Verlan
(b) Ivresse
(c) Louchébem
(d) Klezmer-loshn

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

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

11. Harry tells his mistress in the story, “Love is a dunghill. And I’m the” what?
(a) Worms underneath wriggling for freedom
(b) Mule that eats the hay
(c) Cock that gets on it to crow
(d) Lucky man who gets to step in it

12. As Harry dies in the end of the story, his companion hears what animal stop whimpering and begin to make a strange human sound?
(a) A leopard
(b) A hyena
(c) A vulture
(d) A zebra

13. When Harry begins dictating to his companion, he describes a log house, chinked with what on a hill above the lake?
(a) Mortar
(b) Ivy
(c) Coal
(d) Paint

14. How many children did Harry’s female companion have?
(a) 5
(b) 2
(c) 4
(d) 3

15. What affliction has Harry contracted in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?
(a) Typhus
(b) Dysentery
(c) Gangrene
(d) Malaria

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Of his female companion, Harry thinks to himself as she returns to camp, “she was not pretty, but he liked her” what?

3. Where does Harry recall living at Christmas in a woodcutter’s house?

4. 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?

5. As his companion dictates, Harry describes renting a trout stream after the war and says there were two ways to walk it. One was down the valley from where?

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