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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. Where is Monte Corona located?
(a) Austria
(b) Italy
(c) Portugal
(d) Spain

2. What drink does Harry ask the African servant to bring him in the beginning of the story?
(a) Whiskey-soda
(b) Ginger ale
(c) Rum and soda
(d) Lemonade

3. Of what does the narrator say Harry had sold “in one form or another, all his life and when your affections are not too involved you give much better value for the money”?
(a) Lies
(b) Poetry
(c) Vitality
(d) Cowardice

4. 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?
(a) Herr Williamson
(b) Herr Lent
(c) Herr Julian
(d) Herr Hans

5. How are the flashbacks into Harry’s past delineated from the rest of the narrative in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?
(a) They are in parentheses
(b) They are in boldface
(c) They are in quotations
(d) They are italicized

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When dictating to his companion, Harry describes living and writing in Paris in a top room of a hotel where he paid how much per month?

3. What affliction has Harry contracted in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?

4. Who does Harry’s companion call for when she awakens at the end of the story?

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?

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