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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 narrator says of Harry in the second half of the story, “So this was how you died, in whispers that you” what?
(a) Did not make
(b) Did not hear
(c) Did not remember
(d) Did not consider

2. Harry’s companion tells him early in the story that she wishes they’d gone to what city that Harry loves instead?
(a) To New York
(b) To Amsterdam
(c) To Paris
(d) To London

3. What café does Harry describe as being filled with “the smell of dirty sweat and poverty and drunkenness” when dictating to his companion?
(a) The Café de Asnieres
(b) The Cabaret Voltaire
(c) The Café des Amateurs
(d) The Café de Courbevoie

4. What affliction has Harry contracted in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?
(a) Malaria
(b) Gangrene
(c) Dysentery
(d) Typhus

5. Who is described in Harry’s flashback as having “lost it all” while playing cards by lantern light during a blizzard at the mountain huts by Schrunz?
(a) Herr Lent
(b) Herr Julian
(c) Herr Hans
(d) Herr Williamson

Short Answer Questions

1. Vorarlberg is located in what current nation?

2. When recalling his heartbreak over losing his first, lost love, Harry recalls picking up a girl outside of what Parisian restaurant?

3. Of his female companion, Harry thinks to himself as she returns to camp, “she was not pretty, but he liked her” what?

4. Harry’s mistress tells him in the beginning of “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” “You can’t die if you don’t” what?

5. When Harry apologizes and tells his companion that he’s never loved anyone else the way he loved her, the narrator comments, “He slipped into the familiar lie he made” what by?

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