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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. 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) Cherries
(b) Blueberries
(c) Huckleberries
(d) Blackberries

2. What does Harry recall giving Williamson instead of shooting him when Williamson was dying from his injuries?
(a) A love letter from his wife
(b) All his morphine pills
(c) His own rifle
(d) A bottle of whiskey

3. What term was popularized by Ernest Hemingway and referred to describe the generation that came of age during World War I?
(a) The Lost Generation
(b) The Absurdist Generation
(c) The Beat Generation
(d) The Silent Generation

4. Of what does Harry’s companion say “That’s the good destruction. That’s the way we’re made to be destroyed”?
(a) In the press
(b) In bed
(c) In love
(d) In warfare

5. Of his female companion, Harry thinks to himself as she returns to camp, “she was not pretty, but he liked her” what?
(a) Back
(b) Hands
(c) Face
(d) Lips

Short Answer Questions

1. Harry questions in the beginning of the story whether it is sight or what that brings the vultures in?

2. The narrator says that Harry “had chosen to make his living with something else instead of” what?

3. Who is described in a flashback of Christmas day as having “flown across the lines to bomb the Austrian officers' leave train, machine-gunning them as they scattered and ran”?

4. Where is Monte Corona located?

5. The Rue Cardinal Lemoine is described as running in one direction to the river and in the other direction to the narrow crowded world of what street?

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