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

2. What kind of tree is Harry’s cot described as sitting under in the beginning of the story?
(a) A coconut tree
(b) A mimosa tree
(c) A beech tree
(d) A palm tree

3. What happened to the log house that Harry describes to his companion as she dictates in the second half of the story?
(a) It was foreclosed by the bank
(b) It was sold
(c) It was flooded in a storm
(d) It burned down

4. 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 Cabaret Voltaire
(b) The Café de Courbevoie
(c) The Café de Asnieres
(d) The Café des Amateurs

5. Where does Harry describe renting a trout stream after the war as his companion dictates?
(a) The Black Forest
(b) The Redwood Forest
(c) The White Forest
(d) The Aspen Forest

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Harry’s mistress repeatedly ask him if he’d like her to do in the beginning of the story?

2. 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?

3. What does the word “skischule” translate to in English?

4. In one of Harry’s flashbacks, he recalls talking to a member of the Kaiser Jägers above the saw-mill about the fighting on what mountain?

5. Of whom does Harry think, “You said that you could write about these people; that you were not really of them but a spy in their country”?

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