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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 term does the narrator use in describing the police that followed the deserter to the woodcutter’s cabin in Harry’s flashback?
(a) Mercenaries
(b) Patrol
(c) Pulapol
(d) Gendarmes

2. One of Harry’s flashbacks describes a trip for Anatolia. On this trip, Harry remembers riding all day through fields of what kinds of flowers?
(a) Roses
(b) Honeysuckle
(c) Pansies
(d) Poppies

3. In Harry’s flashback to living in the woodcutter’s house, what large porcelain object is described as filling half the room?
(a) A table
(b) A bathtub
(c) A stove
(d) A bed stand

4. Harry’s mistress tells him in the beginning of “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” “You can’t die if you don’t” what?
(a) Fight
(b) Want to
(c) Try to
(d) Give up

5. What does Harry say “makes the time pass” in the beginning of the story?
(a) Singing
(b) Quarrelling
(c) Making love
(d) Writing

Short Answer Questions

1. The Dada movement was originated by a group of artists and poets associated with what café?

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. 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?

4. How many children did Harry’s female companion have?

5. Harry’s companion tells him when she returns from hunting, “The boys have the wood all ready and the grass to make” what?

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