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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. Harry’s mistress is described as having a “well-known, well-loved face from Spur and” what magazine?
(a) Town and Country
(b) The Urban Socialite
(c) Society Weekly
(d) The New Yorker

2. Many claim that the Dada movement began where?
(a) Milan, Italy
(b) Amsterdam, the Netherlands
(c) New York, New York
(d) Zurich, Switzerland

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?
(a) Huckleberries
(b) Blackberries
(c) Cherries
(d) Blueberries

4. How long ago was it that Harry scratched himself, leading ultimately to his current condition?
(a) 1 week ago
(b) 2 weeks ago
(c) 5 days ago
(d) 2 days ago

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. As Harry dies in the end of the story, his companion hears what animal stop whimpering and begin to make a strange human sound?

3. The narrator says of Harry in the beginning of the story that “he had no pain and with the pain the horror had gone and all he felt now was a great tiredness and” what?

4. What word does the narrator use in the beginning of the story to refer to a type of African gazelles?

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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