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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. Near Harry and his mistress’s camp under the trees, the narrator describes a nearly dry water hole where what animals come to in the mornings?
(a) Vultures
(b) Elephants
(c) Sea eagles
(d) Sand grouse

2. Of Harry and his mistress, the narrator says, “It was not her fault that when he went to her he was” what?
(a) Already over
(b) Over the hill
(c) Already devoid of talent
(d) Depressed

3. What word from the narrative refers to the act or condition of giving tacit assent, agreement, or consent by silence or without objection?
(a) Obliqueness
(b) Allusion
(c) Arrogance
(d) Acquiescence

4. When dictating to his companion, Harry describes living and writing in Paris in a top room of a hotel where he paid how much per month?
(a) 60 francs
(b) 50 francs
(c) 10 francs
(d) 100 francs

5. Harry claims that the man whom they hired to check out the truck didn’t check what?
(a) The oil
(b) The axle
(c) The gas
(d) The tires

Short Answer Questions

1. Harry’s “femme de ménage” in Paris is described as having said, “It is the wife of the working man who suffers from” what?

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

3. How are the flashbacks into Harry’s past delineated from the rest of the narrative in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?

4. What kind of plane does Compton arrive in at the end of the story?

5. How far does Harry recall driving by sled to town with the chore boy and the corpse of the man that beat the chore boy in his memories of the ranch?

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