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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. The Dada movement began in approximately what year?
(a) 1919
(b) 1895
(c) 1916
(d) 1942

2. Harry scratched himself as he and his companion were moving forward to photograph what animals?
(a) Vultures
(b) Hyenas
(c) Waterbuck
(d) Zebras

3. Harry tells the woman that the first thing he did to deserve his fate was not putting what on his wound when he first scratched himself?
(a) A bandage
(b) Iodine
(c) Peroxide
(d) Alcohol

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

5. The narrator says that Harry “had chosen to make his living with something else instead of” what?
(a) A pen or a pencil
(b) His mind and heart
(c) A hammer and nail
(d) A suit and tie

Short Answer Questions

1. In Harry’s flashback to Schrunz on Christmas day, the narrator describes a glacier above what mountain huts?

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. When Harry begins dictating to his companion, he describes a log house on a hill above the lake. What kind of trees are described as running from the house to the dock?

4. What decorative object does Harry describe outside the Boucherie Chevaline when he dictates to his companion in the latter part of the story?

5. What does Harry regret having done “so much that he blunted the edge of his perceptions”?

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