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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. When was Black’s Medical Dictionary first published?
(a) 1885
(b) 1723
(c) 1911
(d) 1906

2. What is Harry’s mistress’s reply when he says in the beginning of the story, “I don’t want to move. There is no sense in moving now except to make it easier for you”?
(a) It doesn’t make it easier for me
(b) That’s cowardly
(c) I’m leaving
(d) Don’t be obtuse

3. What word meaning a cargo truck does Compton use when he arrives at the end of the story?
(a) Catapult
(b) Vanguard
(c) Lorry
(d) Viaduct

4. Where is “that old bastard” from that Harry describes as having beaten the chore boy in Harry’s memories of the ranch?
(a) The Willows
(b) The Canyons
(c) The Prairies
(d) The Forks

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Harry recalls that Williamson was hit by a stick bomb thrown by someone in what kind of patrol in his flashbacks?

2. What is the powdered milk brand that Harry’s companion says she’ll have the servants mash potatoes with in the narrative?

3. How many children did Harry’s female companion have?

4. As Harry describes his past for his companion to dictate in the second half of the story, he describes the husband of the woman who ran the Bal Musette as having what occupation?

5. 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”?

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