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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 describing his past to his companion who dictates, Harry describes the people of the Place Contrescarpe as being of two kinds: the drunkards and the what?
(a) Argots
(b) L’envers
(c) Aeronauts
(d) Sportifs

2. Schwarzwald is a wooded mountain range located in the southwest of what country?
(a) Germany
(b) Romania
(c) Austria
(d) Russia

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?
(a) Sand grouse
(b) Vultures
(c) Elephants
(d) Sea eagles

4. As Harry dies in the end of the story, his companion hears what animal stop whimpering and begin to make a strange human sound?
(a) A zebra
(b) A vulture
(c) A hyena
(d) A leopard

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Vorarlberg is located in what current nation?

2. When Harry thinks back to the railway station in Karagatch, he recalls the headlight of what cutting through the dark?

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

4. In Harry’s flashback to living in the woodcutter’s house, what large porcelain object is described as filling half the room?

5. How would you describe the narrator of “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?

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