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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 comment does Harry make to his companion before saying, “That’s poetry. I’m full of poetry now. Rot and poetry. Rotten poetry”?
(a) You rich bitch
(b) A rhyme in time
(c) Look at the book
(d) A letter’s better

2. Where was Tristan Tzara born?
(a) The United States
(b) Romania
(c) Russia
(d) Germany

3. Harry’s “femme de ménage” in Paris is described as having said, “It is the wife of the working man who suffers from” what?
(a) The government’s greed
(b) This shortening of hours
(c) His adulterous affairs
(d) His lack of education

4. Perticara is a town located in what country?
(a) France
(b) Austria
(c) Belgium
(d) Italy

5. What location does Harry describe to his dictating companion, where “the flower sellers dyed their flowers in the street and the dye ran over the paving where the autobus started”?
(a) The Place Contrescarpe
(b) Asnieres-sur-Seine
(c) Montparnasse
(d) Aubervilliers

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the African servant to Harry and his mistress in the story?

2. In Harry’s flashback to fleeing from a British gunner subaltern with a woman, they spend the night together and the next morning Harry arrives where “with a black eye, carrying his coat because one sleeve was missing”?

3. What animals does Harry see from the plane that are described as “big-headed dots seeming to climb as they moved in long fingers across the plain”?

4. How is the chore boy described that was left at the ranch and told not to let anyone get any hay in Harry’s recollections?

5. The Dada movement began in approximately what year?

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