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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. The narrator says of Harry in the second half of the story, “So this was how you died, in whispers that you” what?
(a) Did not hear
(b) Did not remember
(c) Did not make
(d) Did not consider

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. The narrator says of Harry’s female companion that she “loved him dearly as a writer, as a man, as a companion and as” what?
(a) A proud possession
(b) A provider
(c) A husband
(d) A humble servant

4. Harry recalls that Williamson was hit by a stick bomb thrown by someone in what kind of patrol in his flashbacks?
(a) A French patrol
(b) A British patrol
(c) A German patrol
(d) A Japanese patrol

5. The Rue Cardinal Lemoine is described as running in one direction to the river and in the other direction to the narrow crowded world of what street?
(a) The Rue Mouffetard
(b) The Rue de Gaillon
(c) The Rue des Ecoles
(d) The Rue de Rivoli

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

2. By what name does Harry refer to his companion’s “people” during their argument in the beginning of the story?

3. In Harry’s flashback to living in the woodcutter’s house, he recalls sleeping on mattresses filled with what?

4. One of Harry’s mistress’s children was killed how?

5. What term was popularized by Ernest Hemingway and referred to describe the generation that came of age during World War I?

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