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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. 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 warfare
(c) In bed
(d) In love

2. What decorative object does Harry describe outside the Boucherie Chevaline when he dictates to his companion in the latter part of the story?
(a) A brass cow’s head
(b) A silver goat’s head
(c) A golden horse’s head
(d) A golden wreath

3. Harry’s mistress tells him in the beginning of the story that Black’s Medical Dictionary says that what is bad for him in his condition?
(a) Laying still
(b) Alcohol
(c) Antibiotics
(d) Talking

4. Harry’s companion tells him early in the story that she wishes they’d gone to what city that Harry loves instead?
(a) To New York
(b) To Paris
(c) To London
(d) To Amsterdam

5. When Harry’s mistress tells him in the beginning of the story that he’s not going to die, he responds by saying, “Don’t be silly. I’m dying now. Ask those bastards.” What does Harry point to when he says this?
(a) The hyenas
(b) The flies
(c) The mosquitoes
(d) The vultures

Short Answer Questions

1. The Dada movement began in approximately what year?

2. In Harry’s flashback to fleeing from a British gunner subaltern with a woman, they spend the night together and the next morning Harry arrives where “with a black eye, carrying his coat because one sleeve was missing”?

3. When Harry begins dictating to his companion, he describes a log house on a hill above the lake and a road that went up to the hills where Harry had picked what?

4. What is the name of Harry’s female companion in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?

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

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