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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. When was Black’s Medical Dictionary first published?
(a) 1911
(b) 1906
(c) 1885
(d) 1723

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

3. How many children did Harry’s female companion have?
(a) 5
(b) 3
(c) 4
(d) 2

4. What location does Harry describe to his dictating companion, where “the flower sellers dyed their flowers in the street and the dye ran over the paving where the autobus started”?
(a) The Place Contrescarpe
(b) Montparnasse
(c) Asnieres-sur-Seine
(d) Aubervilliers

5. As his companion dictates, Harry describes renting a trout stream after the war and says there were two ways to walk it. One was down the valley from where?
(a) Enns
(b) Triberg
(c) Steyr
(d) Liezen

Short Answer Questions

1. Anatolia is a region of what current country?

2. What happened to the log house that Harry describes to his companion as she dictates in the second half of the story?

3. What is Harry’s mistress’s reply when he says in the beginning of the story, “I don’t want to move. There is no sense in moving now except to make it easier for you”?

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

5. The narrator says that Harry planned this safari in the hopes that he could burn what off his soul in “the way a fighter went to the mountains to work and train in order to burn it out of his body”?

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