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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. One of Harry’s flashbacks describes a trip for Anatolia. On this trip, Harry remembers riding all day through fields of what kinds of flowers?
(a) Poppies
(b) Honeysuckle
(c) Pansies
(d) Roses

2. What drinks do Harry and his companion have after she’s returned from hunting in the evening?
(a) Manhattans
(b) Rum-sodas
(c) Whiskey-sodas
(d) Gin-and-gingers

3. Who does Harry’s companion call for when she awakens at the end of the story?
(a) Hans
(b) Nansen
(c) Lent
(d) Molo

4. What comment does Harry make to his companion before saying, “That’s poetry. I’m full of poetry now. Rot and poetry. Rotten poetry”?
(a) A rhyme in time
(b) A letter’s better
(c) You rich bitch
(d) Look at the book

5. What animals does Harry see from the plane that are described as “big-headed dots seeming to climb as they moved in long fingers across the plain”?
(a) Zebras
(b) Vultures
(c) Wildebeests
(d) Hyenas

Short Answer Questions

1. What café does Harry describe as being filled with “the smell of dirty sweat and poverty and drunkenness” when dictating to his companion?

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

3. When Harry begins dictating to his companion, he describes a log house on a hill above the lake and a road that went up to the hills where Harry had picked what?

4. Harry’s companion tells him early in the story that she wishes they’d gone to what city that Harry loves instead?

5. When recalling his heartbreak over losing his first, lost love, Harry recalls picking up a girl outside of what Parisian restaurant?

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