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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. Of Harry, the narrator says in the beginning of the story, “Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until” when?
(a) He had the inspiration to write them
(b) He had the skills to write them well
(c) He had the intelligence to write them well
(d) He knew enough to write them well

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

3. When dictating to his companion, Harry describes riding a bike up the only asphalted street in his quarter of Paris which led to a tall hotel where who had died?
(a) Marie LeVeaux
(b) Marie Antoinette
(c) Napoleon Bonaparte
(d) Paul Verlaine

4. When Harry first drifts into the flashback of his memories in the story, he sees in his mind a railway station in Karagatch. In what country is Karagatch located?
(a) Spain
(b) Turkey
(c) Germany
(d) Russia

5. How is the chore boy described that was left at the ranch and told not to let anyone get any hay in Harry’s recollections?
(a) A half-wit
(b) Dumb and deaf
(c) A little nerdy squirt
(d) A tall buck

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. As Harry dies in the end of the story, his female companion is dreaming about the house located where?

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

4. 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?

5. Harry questions in the beginning of the story whether it is sight or what that brings the vultures in?

(see the answer key)

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