Q 01/05

In The Snows of Kilimanjaro, which condition is slowly killing the writer Harry as he lies on a camp cot?

A) Tetanus

B) Snakebite

C) Gangrene

D) Malaria

Answer · why

C) Gangrene

Gangrene is eating its way up Harry's leg, and its smell hangs over the camp. Because the rot is painless, he has long hours of calm in which to look ...

Q 02/05

The opening of The Snows of Kilimanjaro describes which animal's frozen carcass near the mountain's western summit?

A) A lion

B) A cheetah

C) An elephant

D) A leopard

Answer · why

D) A leopard

A leopard, dried and frozen, lies far above any hunting ground, and nobody in the story can say what drew it so high. Harry's own last dream carries h...

Q 03/05

In The Snows of Kilimanjaro, which animal's strange cry wakes Helen on the night Harry stops responding?

A) A jackal

B) A hyena

C) A lion

D) A baboon

Answer · why

B) A hyena

A hyena has skirted the camp every evening, and Harry comes to feel it as death itself drawing near. Hemingway later joked that a hyena was the best p...

Q 04/05

In The Snows of Kilimanjaro, what minor injury to Harry's knee led to the infection that is killing him?

A) A snake bite

B) A bullet graze

C) A thorn scratch

D) A tsetse fly bite

Answer · why

C) A thorn scratch

A thorn scratch on his right knee was all it took, picked up while he and Helen were out with a camera. He let it go, and two weeks later it is killin...

Q 05/05

Which star, cast after Humphrey Bogart was considered, played Harry in the 1952 film of The Snows of Kilimanjaro?

A) Gary Cooper

B) Gregory Peck

C) Clark Gable

D) Spencer Tracy

Answer · why

B) Gregory Peck

Gregory Peck took the role and wrenched his knee carrying a co-star during the shoot, which stopped filming for ten days.