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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. Schwarzwald is a wooded mountain range located in the southwest of what country?
(a) Russia
(b) Germany
(c) Romania
(d) Austria

2. How is the chore boy described that was left at the ranch and told not to let anyone get any hay in Harry’s recollections?
(a) A tall buck
(b) A little nerdy squirt
(c) A half-wit
(d) Dumb and deaf

3. Of Harry’s companion, the narrator says, “She loved anything that was exciting, that involved a change of scene, where there were new people and where things were” what?
(a) Pleasant
(b) Interesting
(c) Complicated
(d) A struggle

4. Of what does the narrator say Harry had sold “in one form or another, all his life and when your affections are not too involved you give much better value for the money”?
(a) Lies
(b) Cowardice
(c) Vitality
(d) Poetry

5. 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) That’s cowardly
(b) I’m leaving
(c) It doesn’t make it easier for me
(d) Don’t be obtuse

Short Answer Questions

1. When Harry begins dictating to his companion, he describes a log house, chinked with what on a hill above the lake?

2. Who is described in Harry’s flashback as having “lost it all” while playing cards by lantern light during a blizzard at the mountain huts by Schrunz?

3. The Hôtel de Crillon is located at the foot of what famous street?

4. When Harry begins dictating to his companion, he describes a log house on a hill above the lake. What kind of trees are described as running from the house to the dock?

5. As Harry describes his past for his companion to dictate in the second half of the story, he describes the husband of the woman who ran the Bal Musette as having what occupation?

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