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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. When recalling his first, lost love, Harry recalls writing to tell her that he thought he saw her outside of what location and “it made him go all faint and sick inside”?
(a) The Capital
(b) The Regence
(c) The Pentagon
(d) The Louvre

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

3. When Harry’s mistress says in the beginning of the story, “Please tell me what I can do,” Harry responds that she can take his leg off or do what?
(a) Write out his will
(b) Call his daughter
(c) Shoot him
(d) Leave him alone

4. When Harry’s mistress tells him in the beginning of the story that he’s not going to die, he responds by saying, “Don’t be silly. I’m dying now. Ask those bastards.” What does Harry point to when he says this?
(a) The mosquitoes
(b) The flies
(c) The vultures
(d) The hyenas

5. The Hôtel de Crillon is located at the foot of what famous street?
(a) The Rue de Passy
(b) Boulevard Haussmann
(c) The Champs-Élysées
(d) The Rue de Rennes

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Compton appear to be flying Harry to at the end of the story?

2. Who does Harry recall as being poor and having been in “romantic awe of him” in his flashbacks to his past?

3. Who is described as Harry’s “femme de ménage” in his descriptions of Paris while dictating to his companion?

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

5. When Harry thinks back to the railway station in Karagatch, he recalls that he was leaving what geographical area after the retreat?

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