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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 does Harry recall “them” giving the deserter who arrived with the police right behind him in his flashback to living at the woodcutter’s house?
(a) Wool socks
(b) A blanket
(c) A thrashing
(d) A rifle

2. What war was Harry fighting in when he was in Anatolia?
(a) The Korean War
(b) The French and Spanish War
(c) World War I
(d) World War II

3. 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?
(a) Talking
(b) Laying still
(c) Alcohol
(d) Antibiotics

4. What is the name of Harry’s female companion in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?
(a) Marie
(b) Anna
(c) Helen
(d) Sara

5. In what year was “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” adapted and produced to film, starring Gregory Peck as Harry?
(a) 1948
(b) 1952
(c) 1936
(d) 1942

Short Answer Questions

1. In Harry’s flashback to fleeing from a British gunner subaltern with a woman, they get into a taxi and go to what location along the Bosphorus?

2. In one of Harry’s flashbacks, he recalls talking to a member of the Kaiser Jägers above the saw-mill about the fighting on what mountain?

3. Near Harry and his mistress’s camp under the trees, the narrator describes a nearly dry water hole where what animals come to in the mornings?

4. Harry tells his companion in the evening as they sit by the fire, “You know the only thing I've never lost is” what?

5. Harry tells his mistress in the story, “Love is a dunghill. And I’m the” what?

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