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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to the log house that Harry describes to his companion as she dictates in the second half of the story?
(a) It burned down
(b) It was flooded in a storm
(c) It was foreclosed by the bank
(d) It was sold

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

3. When Harry thinks back to the railway station in Karagatch, he recalls the headlight of what cutting through the dark?
(a) The Royal Scotsman
(b) The Royal Rajasthan
(c) The British Pullman
(d) The Simplon-Orient

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

5. What kind of plane does Compton arrive in at the end of the story?
(a) A Cessna
(b) An Airbus
(c) A Puss Moth
(d) A B-52.

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

7. 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) Talking
(b) Laying still
(c) Alcohol
(d) Antibiotics

8. Of Harry, the narrator says, “He could beat anything, he thought, because nothing could hurt him if he” what?
(a) Acted tough enough
(b) Kept a straight face
(c) Did not care
(d) Was strong

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

10. In one flashback, Harry recalls “the man who had the fox to sell when they had walked into” what town?
(a) Feidkirch
(b) St. Gallen
(c) Kappl
(d) Bludenz

11. When recalling his first, lost love, Harry recalls writing her a letter and sending it where?
(a) To Boston
(b) To New York
(c) To Paris
(d) To London

12. Harry scratched himself as he and his companion were moving forward to photograph what animals?
(a) Zebras
(b) Waterbuck
(c) Hyenas
(d) Vultures

13. Harry questions in the beginning of the story whether it is sight or what that brings the vultures in?
(a) Empathy
(b) Sound
(c) Intelligence
(d) Scent

14. What word, meaning a wine parlor, does the narrator use when describing the setting of Schrunz in Harry’s flashback?
(a) Vin de Syrah
(b) Vinlonge
(c) Vinstube
(d) Weinstube

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Of Harry’s friends, the narrator says, “The people he knew now were all much more comfortable when he did not” what?

2. What drinks do Harry and his companion have after she’s returned from hunting in the evening?

3. When Harry begins dictating to his companion, he describes a log house on a hill above the lake and a road that went up to the hills where Harry had picked what?

4. What affliction has Harry contracted in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?

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

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