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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 does the word “skischule” translate to in English?
(a) Butcher
(b) Wine parlor
(c) Ski school
(d) Hot dog stand

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 little nerdy squirt
(b) A tall buck
(c) Dumb and deaf
(d) A half-wit

3. Of what does Harry’s companion say “That’s the good destruction. That’s the way we’re made to be destroyed”?
(a) In the press
(b) In bed
(c) In love
(d) In warfare

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

5. Of Harry, the narrator says in the beginning of the story, “Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until” when?
(a) He had the intelligence to write them well
(b) He knew enough to write them well
(c) He had the inspiration to write them
(d) He had the skills to write them well

Short Answer Questions

1. The woman that Harry took “away from a British gunner subaltern after a row” in one of his flashbacks is described as being from where?

2. In his first flashbacks of memory, Harry recalls “looking out the window and seeing snow on the mountains in” what country?

3. What French word does the narrator use to describe drunkenness in the narrative?

4. Harry scratched himself where on his body, leading to his current condition?

5. 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?

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