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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. What animals does Harry see from the plane that are described as “big-headed dots seeming to climb as they moved in long fingers across the plain”?
(a) Vultures
(b) Zebras
(c) Wildebeests
(d) Hyenas

2. When Harry awakens in the evening, the African servant tells him that his companion has gone to do what?
(a) Hunt
(b) Call for help
(c) Cook dinner
(d) Bathe

3. Harry’s “femme de ménage” in Paris is described as having said, “It is the wife of the working man who suffers from” what?
(a) The government’s greed
(b) This shortening of hours
(c) His lack of education
(d) His adulterous affairs

4. When Harry begins dictating to his companion, he describes a bell on a pole by the door of the log house used to do what?
(a) Call people in to meals
(b) Call the guards to their stations
(c) Warn of a bomb raid
(d) Frighten away bears

5. In Harry’s flashback to fleeing from a British gunner subaltern with a woman, they get into a taxi and go to what location along the Bosphorus?
(a) Viltas Villari
(b) Rimmily Hissa
(c) Karanfil Sk
(d) Maya Villari

Short Answer Questions

1. How many winters does the narrator say Harry lived in the Arlberg?

2. When Harry and his companion begin arguing in the story, he tells her that what were his sword and his armor?

3. What is the name of the African servant to Harry and his mistress in the story?

4. Of whom does Harry think, “You said that you could write about these people; that you were not really of them but a spy in their country”?

5. On what continent is Mount Kilimanjaro located?

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