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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 do the two boys have slung and carry as they follow Harry’s companion back to the camp when she returns in the evening?
(a) A zebra
(b) A cougar
(c) A Tommie
(d) A lion

2. What word does the narrator use in the beginning of the story to refer to a type of African gazelles?
(a) Egrets
(b) Tommies
(c) Ngalis
(d) Hyenas

3. 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

4. Harry says that he and his mistress hired whom instead of a good mechanic?
(a) A drunken lorry driver
(b) A half-baked Kikuyu driver
(c) A swindler from Europe
(d) A voodoo goddess

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”?
(a) Damage
(b) Weakness
(c) Sloth
(d) Fat

Short Answer Questions

1. What French word does the narrator use to describe drunkenness in the narrative?

2. The bicycle racer that Harry describes to his dictating companion is said to have won what place in the Paris-Tours?

3. Harry tells his mistress in the story, “Love is a dunghill. And I’m the” what?

4. What decorative object does Harry describe outside the Boucherie Chevaline when he dictates to his companion in the latter part of the story?

5. By what name does the author assert the western summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro is known as in the author’s preface to the story?

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