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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of death, Harry says in the beginning of the story, “The remarkable thing is that it’s” what?
(a) Cold
(b) Chilling
(c) Frightening
(d) Painless

2. Harry questions in the beginning of the story whether it is sight or what that brings the vultures in?
(a) Empathy
(b) Intelligence
(c) Scent
(d) Sound

3. Near Harry and his mistress’s camp under the trees, the narrator describes a nearly dry water hole where what animals come to in the mornings?
(a) Vultures
(b) Sand grouse
(c) Sea eagles
(d) Elephants

4. Of Harry, the narrator says, “It was never what he had done, but always” what?
(a) What he could do
(b) What he had regretted
(c) What he thought
(d) What he said he would do

5. Compton watches for holes made by what animals as he prepares to take off in the plane at the end of the story?
(a) Warthogs
(b) Hyenas
(c) Boas
(d) Zebras

6. The Dada movement was originated by a group of artists and poets associated with what café?
(a) The Café Fribourg
(b) The Cabaret Voltaire
(c) The White Horse Tavern
(d) The Café Vordergasse

7. 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

8. What café does Harry describe as being filled with “the smell of dirty sweat and poverty and drunkenness” when dictating to his companion?
(a) The Café des Amateurs
(b) The Cabaret Voltaire
(c) The Café de Asnieres
(d) The Café de Courbevoie

9. Of what kind of animal does Harry’s companion say, “He’s the one makes the noise at night. I don’t mind it. They’re a filthy animal though”?
(a) A vulture
(b) A leopard
(c) A lion
(d) A hyena

10. Harry’s companion tells him that they always stayed at what hotel in St. Germain?
(a) The Hôtel de Crillon
(b) The Hotel II Salviatino
(c) The Pavillion Henri-Quatre
(d) The Café Royal Hotel

11. What does Harry’s mistress repeatedly ask him if he’d like her to do in the beginning of the story?
(a) Read to him
(b) Call his mother
(c) Sing for him
(d) Bathe him

12. What is the powdered milk brand that Harry’s companion says she’ll have the servants mash potatoes with in the narrative?
(a) Dewberry’s
(b) Atkins
(c) Nestle
(d) Klim

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

14. What is the name of a clear, colorless fruit brandy made from morello cherries that is described in the story?
(a) Schnapps
(b) Ginever
(c) Vodka
(d) Kirsch

15. 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?
(a) Herr Julian
(b) Herr Williamson
(c) Herr Hans
(d) Herr Lent

Short Answer Questions

1. Harry tells the woman in the beginning of “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” that he watched the way the vultures sailed carefully in case he ever wanted to do what?

2. Harry’s companion tells him when she returns with meat that she’s been destroyed how many times before?

3. When was the Hôtel de Crillon opened in Paris?

4. Where is “that old bastard” from that Harry describes as having beaten the chore boy in Harry’s memories of the ranch?

5. How did the chore boy kill the man that beat him in Harry’s memories from the ranch?

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