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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 word, meaning a wine parlor, does the narrator use when describing the setting of Schrunz in Harry’s flashback?
(a) Weinstube
(b) Vinlonge
(c) Vin de Syrah
(d) Vinstube

2. The Hôtel de Crillon is located at the foot of what famous street?
(a) The Champs-Élysées
(b) The Rue de Rennes
(c) The Rue de Passy
(d) Boulevard Haussmann

3. What kind of African equids does Harry see when he looks out over the plains in the beginning of the story?
(a) Lemurs
(b) Camels
(c) Alpacas
(d) Zebras

4. What is the powdered milk brand that Harry’s companion says she’ll have the servants mash potatoes with in the narrative?
(a) Dewberry’s
(b) Atkins
(c) Klim
(d) Nestle

5. When recalling his heartbreak over losing his first, lost love, Harry recalls picking up a girl outside of what Parisian restaurant?
(a) Valjean’s
(b) The Four Seasons
(c) Jean George’s
(d) Maxim’s

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says of Harry in the story, “Now if this was how it ended, and he knew it was, he must not turn like some snake biting itself because” of what reason?

2. 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?

3. Harry and the woman are waiting for the arrival of what in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?

4. By what name does the author assert the western summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro is known as in the author’s preface to the story?

5. Where does the narrator say Harry “had been happiest in the good time of his life”?

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