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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. In Harry’s flashback to living in the woodcutter’s house, he recalls sleeping on mattresses filled with what?
(a) Palm leaves
(b) Tobacco leaves
(c) Beech leaves
(d) Juniper leaves

2. When describing his past to his companion who dictates, Harry describes the people of the Place Contrescarpe as being of two kinds: the drunkards and the what?
(a) Aeronauts
(b) Sportifs
(c) L’envers
(d) Argots

3. Of Harry and his mistress, the narrator says, “It was not her fault that when he went to her he was” what?
(a) Already over
(b) Already devoid of talent
(c) Over the hill
(d) Depressed

4. What does Harry regret having done “so much that he blunted the edge of his perceptions”?
(a) Drugs
(b) Drinking
(c) Gossiping
(d) Gambling

5. Anatolia is a region of what current country?
(a) Turkey
(b) Austria
(c) Poland
(d) Germany

Short Answer Questions

1. What affliction has Harry contracted in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?

2. Williamson is described as “a fat man, very brave, and a good officer, although addicted to” what?

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

4. The Dada movement began in approximately what year?

5. How many winters does the narrator say Harry lived in the Arlberg?

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