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

2. The narrator refers to Harry’s mistress as the “kindly caretaker and destroyer of” what?
(a) His lust
(b) His talent
(c) His ego
(d) His manhood

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

4. In what part of his body is Harry afflicted in the story?
(a) His left arm
(b) His right leg
(c) His right arm
(d) His left leg

5. Who is described as having owned the guns in the log house that Harry describes to his companion as she dictates in the second half of the story?
(a) Harry’s uncle
(b) Harry’s father
(c) Harry’s great-grandfather
(d) Harry’s grandfather

Short Answer Questions

1. Harry’s “femme de ménage” in Paris is described as having said, “It is the wife of the working man who suffers from” what?

2. When Harry begins dictating to his companion, he describes a log house on a hill above the lake. What kind of trees are described as running from the house to the dock?

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

4. What word does the narrator use in the beginning of the story to refer to a type of African gazelles?

5. In one of Harry’s flashbacks, he recalls talking to a member of the Kaiser Jägers above the saw-mill about the attack on Perticara and where?

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