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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. 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) Aubervilliers
(b) Montparnasse
(c) Asnieres-sur-Seine
(d) The Place Contrescarpe

2. The narrator says that Harry planned this safari in the hopes that he could burn what off his soul in “the way a fighter went to the mountains to work and train in order to burn it out of his body”?
(a) Weakness
(b) Damage
(c) Fat
(d) Sloth

3. What is the name of Harry’s female companion in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?
(a) Sara
(b) Marie
(c) Helen
(d) Anna

4. Mount Kilimanjaro is located in what country currently?
(a) Namibia
(b) Mali
(c) Nigeria
(d) Tanzania

5. What war was Harry fighting in when he was in Anatolia?
(a) World War II
(b) The Korean War
(c) The French and Spanish War
(d) World War I

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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”?

3. The narrator says of Harry in the beginning of the story that “he had no pain and with the pain the horror had gone and all he felt now was a great tiredness and” what?

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

5. When recalling his heartbreak over losing his first, lost love, Harry recalls picking up a girl outside of what Parisian restaurant?

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