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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. Harry’s companion says in the beginning of the story, “I said I’d go anywhere you wanted. If you wanted to shoot we could have gone shooting” where?
(a) In Canada
(b) In Germany
(c) In Hungary
(d) In Wyoming

2. What does Harry regret having done “so much that he blunted the edge of his perceptions”?
(a) Gossiping
(b) Drinking
(c) Drugs
(d) Gambling

3. 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) Turkey
(b) Spain
(c) Russia
(d) Germany

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 Prairies
(b) The Canyons
(c) The Forks
(d) The Willows

5. What river runs through Paris?
(a) The River Seine
(b) The River Elise
(c) The River Esplanade
(d) The River Thames

Short Answer Questions

1. By what name does Harry refer to his companion’s “people” during their argument in the beginning of the story?

2. The narrator says of Harry in the second half of the story, “So this was how you died, in whispers that you” what?

3. In one of Harry’s flashbacks, he recalls talking to a member of the Kaiser Jägers above the saw-mill about the attack on Perticara and where?

4. The author’s preface to “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” states that Mount Kilimanjaro is how many feet high?

5. Harry scratched himself as he and his companion were moving forward to photograph what animals?

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