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

2. Of Harry, the narrator says, “It was not so much that he lied as that” what?
(a) He needed her money
(b) He had nothing else to say
(c) He no longer knew the truth
(d) There was no truth to tell

3. In Harry’s flashback to living in the woodcutter’s house, what large porcelain object is described as filling half the room?
(a) A bed stand
(b) A stove
(c) A table
(d) A bathtub

4. How long ago was it that Harry scratched himself, leading ultimately to his current condition?
(a) 2 days ago
(b) 5 days ago
(c) 1 week ago
(d) 2 weeks ago

5. What affliction has Harry contracted in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?
(a) Dysentery
(b) Gangrene
(c) Malaria
(d) Typhus

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator say Harry “had been happiest in the good time of his life”?

2. Harry says that he and his mistress hired whom instead of a good mechanic?

3. What word, meaning a wine parlor, does the narrator use when describing the setting of Schrunz in Harry’s flashback?

4. Harry questions in the beginning of the story whether it is sight or what that brings the vultures in?

5. What composer does Harry say to his companion “wrote the words and music. This knowledge that you’re going mad for me”?

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