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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 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

2. What is Harry’s response when his companion says, “That's not fair. I love you now. I'll always love you. Don't you love me?”
(a) Yes, I want to marry you, sweetheart
(b) Once I loved you. I don’t know anymore
(c) Yes, of course I love you, dear
(d) No. I don’t think so. I never have

3. What affliction has Harry contracted in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?
(a) Malaria
(b) Typhus
(c) Gangrene
(d) Dysentery

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) Herr Lent
(b) Molo
(c) Hans
(d) Nansen

5. The narrator says of Harry’s female companion that she “loved him dearly as a writer, as a man, as a companion and as” what?
(a) A humble servant
(b) A provider
(c) A husband
(d) A proud possession

Short Answer Questions

1. The Dada movement was born out of reaction to what war?

2. Where does Harry describe renting a trout stream after the war as his companion dictates?

3. The Dada movement began in approximately what year?

4. In one of Harry’s flashbacks, he recalls talking to a member of the Kaiser Jägers above the saw-mill about the attack on Perticara and where?

5. Harry’s mistress tells him in the beginning of “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” “You can’t die if you don’t” what?

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