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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. Williamson is described as “a fat man, very brave, and a good officer, although addicted to” what?
(a) Women and sex
(b) Drink and gambling
(c) Bad music
(d) Fantastic shows

2. As his companion dictates, Harry describes renting a trout stream after the war and says there were two ways to walk it. One was down the valley from where?
(a) Enns
(b) Liezen
(c) Triberg
(d) Steyr

3. When Harry offers Compton breakfast at the end of the story, Compton only accepts what?
(a) Eggs
(b) Bacon
(c) Coffee
(d) Tea

4. The narrator says of Harry in the second half of the story, “So this was how you died, in whispers that you” what?
(a) Did not consider
(b) Did not remember
(c) Did not hear
(d) Did not make

5. What location does Harry describe to his dictating companion, where “the flower sellers dyed their flowers in the street and the dye ran over the paving where the autobus started”?
(a) The Place Contrescarpe
(b) Asnieres-sur-Seine
(c) Aubervilliers
(d) Montparnasse

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says that Harry “had chosen to make his living with something else instead of” what?

2. Harry tells the woman in the beginning of the story that the vultures appeared the day that what happened?

3. What composer does Harry say to his companion “wrote the words and music. This knowledge that you’re going mad for me”?

4. Harry’s companion tells him when she returns with meat that she’s been destroyed how many times before?

5. What comment does Harry make to his companion before saying, “That’s poetry. I’m full of poetry now. Rot and poetry. Rotten poetry”?

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