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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. As Harry describes his past for his companion to dictate in the second half of the story, he describes the husband of the woman who ran the Bal Musette as having what occupation?
(a) He was a taxidermist
(b) He was a taxi driver
(c) He was a military general
(d) He was a butcher

2. What composer does Harry say to his companion “wrote the words and music. This knowledge that you’re going mad for me”?
(a) Franz Joseph Haydn
(b) Irving Berlin
(c) Cole Porter
(d) Stephen Sondheim

3. Where does Harry describe renting a trout stream after the war as his companion dictates?
(a) The Black Forest
(b) The Aspen Forest
(c) The Redwood Forest
(d) The White Forest

4. The Dada movement began in approximately what year?
(a) 1942
(b) 1919
(c) 1916
(d) 1895

5. 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?
(a) 10 francs
(b) 50 francs
(c) 60 francs
(d) 100 francs

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is described as having been in the Kaiser Jägers and later went hunting hares with Harry in a flashback in the beginning of the story?

2. Harry tells the woman that the first thing he did to deserve his fate was not putting what on his wound when he first scratched himself?

3. Harry’s mistress tells him in the beginning of “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” “You can’t die if you don’t” what?

4. The name of the western summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro translates to what in English, according to the author’s preface to the story?

5. In what part of his body is Harry afflicted in the story?

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