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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. It is noted of Harry’s past, “It was strange, too, wasn't it, that when he fell in love with another woman, that woman should always have more” what “than the last one?”
(a) Talent
(b) Intelligence
(c) Money
(d) Beauty

2. What French word does the narrator use to describe drunkenness in the narrative?
(a) Ivresse
(b) Klezmer-loshn
(c) Louchébem
(d) Verlan

3. What is Harry’s mistress’s reply when he says in the beginning of the story, “I don’t want to move. There is no sense in moving now except to make it easier for you”?
(a) Don’t be obtuse
(b) I’m leaving
(c) That’s cowardly
(d) It doesn’t make it easier for me

4. Who argues with the Secretary about whether or not there is snow on the mountains in Harry’s flashback in the beginning of the story?
(a) Nansen
(b) Hans
(c) Molo
(d) Herr Lent

5. Harry’s companion tells him when she returns with meat that she’s been destroyed how many times before?
(a) Five or six
(b) Three or four
(c) Countless
(d) Two or three

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says of Harry in the story, “Now if this was how it ended, and he knew it was, he must not turn like some snake biting itself because” of what reason?

2. One of Harry’s mistress’s children was killed how?

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

4. 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”?

5. In Harry’s flashback to the fighting in Anatolia, the narrator remarks, “That was the day he'd first seen dead men wearing white ballet skirts and upturned shoes with” what on them?

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