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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Snows of Kilimanjaro.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Harry and the woman are waiting for the arrival of what in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?
(a) A cargo train
(b) A rescue plane
(c) An Army vehicle
(d) A rescue ship

3. 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 hyena
(b) A lion
(c) A leopard
(d) A vulture

4. The narrator says that Harry “had chosen to make his living with something else instead of” what?
(a) His mind and heart
(b) A hammer and nail
(c) A suit and tie
(d) A pen or a pencil

5. In Harry’s flashback to living in the woodcutter’s house, what large porcelain object is described as filling half the room?
(a) A table
(b) A bathtub
(c) A bed stand
(d) A stove

Short Answer Questions

1. When Harry awakens in the evening, the African servant tells him that his companion has gone to do what?

2. Who is described in Harry’s flashback as having “lost it all” while playing cards by lantern light during a blizzard at the mountain huts by Schrunz?

3. Where does Compton appear to be flying Harry to at the end of the story?

4. The author’s preface to “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” states that Mount Kilimanjaro is how many feet high?

5. Where does the narrator say Harry “had been happiest in the good time of his life”?

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