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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 first drifts into the flashback of his memories in the story, he sees in his mind a railway station in Karagatch. In what country is Karagatch located?
(a) Spain
(b) Russia
(c) Turkey
(d) Germany

2. What is Harry’s mistress’s reply when he says in the beginning of the story, “I don’t want to move. There is no sense in moving now except to make it easier for you”?
(a) I’m leaving
(b) That’s cowardly
(c) Don’t be obtuse
(d) It doesn’t make it easier for me

3. 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) A thrashing
(b) Wool socks
(c) A blanket
(d) A rifle

4. Where is “that old bastard” from that Harry describes as having beaten the chore boy in Harry’s memories of the ranch?
(a) The Willows
(b) The Forks
(c) The Canyons
(d) The Prairies

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says of Harry in the beginning of the story that “he had no pain and with the pain the horror had gone and all he felt now was a great tiredness and” what?

2. When recalling his first, lost love, Harry recalls writing to tell her that he thought he saw her outside of what location and “it made him go all faint and sick inside”?

3. What does Harry recall giving Williamson instead of shooting him when Williamson was dying from his injuries?

4. Schwarzwald is a wooded mountain range located in the southwest of what country?

5. What composer does Harry say to his companion “wrote the words and music. This knowledge that you’re going mad for me”?

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