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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. What word, meaning a wine parlor, does the narrator use when describing the setting of Schrunz in Harry’s flashback?
(a) Vin de Syrah
(b) Vinlonge
(c) Vinstube
(d) Weinstube

2. Where was Tristan Tzara born?
(a) Russia
(b) The United States
(c) Germany
(d) Romania

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

4. Tristan Tzara is described in Harry’s Paris flashback as wearing what?
(a) A beret
(b) A top hat
(c) A monocle
(d) A purple suit

5. How would you describe the narrator of “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?
(a) It is related from a third-person, omniscient narrator
(b) It is related from a first-person, omniscient narrator
(c) It is related from a third-person, limited narrator
(d) It is related from a first-person, limited narrator

Short Answer Questions

1. Harry’s mistress tells him in the beginning of the story that Black’s Medical Dictionary says that what is bad for him in his condition?

2. The Dada movement was born out of reaction to what war?

3. The narrator refers to Harry’s mistress as the “kindly caretaker and destroyer of” what?

4. By what title does the African servant refer to Harry’s female companion in the story?

5. When Harry begins dictating to his companion, he describes a log house, chinked with what on a hill above the lake?

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