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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 Dada movement was born out of reaction to what war?
(a) The French and Indian War
(b) World War I
(c) World War II
(d) The Korean War

2. Harry tells his mistress in the story, “Love is a dunghill. And I’m the” what?
(a) Mule that eats the hay
(b) Lucky man who gets to step in it
(c) Cock that gets on it to crow
(d) Worms underneath wriggling for freedom

3. Of Harry’s friends, the narrator says, “The people he knew now were all much more comfortable when he did not” what?
(a) Talk
(b) Work
(c) Dally
(d) Hunt

4. What word from the narrative refers to the act or condition of giving tacit assent, agreement, or consent by silence or without objection?
(a) Arrogance
(b) Obliqueness
(c) Acquiescence
(d) Allusion

5. 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) Stephen Sondheim
(c) Irving Berlin
(d) Cole Porter

Short Answer Questions

1. How many winters does the narrator say Harry lived in the Arlberg?

2. Many claim that the Dada movement began where?

3. The narrator says of Harry in the second half of the story, “So this was how you died, in whispers that you” what?

4. Of Harry, the narrator says, “It was not so much that he lied as that” what?

5. Of death, Harry says in the beginning of the story, “The remarkable thing is that it’s” what?

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