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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 was Black’s Medical Dictionary first published?
(a) 1906
(b) 1723
(c) 1885
(d) 1911

2. 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 father
(b) Harry’s grandfather
(c) Harry’s uncle
(d) Harry’s great-grandfather

3. How many winters does the narrator say Harry lived in the Arlberg?
(a) 4
(b) 10
(c) 3
(d) 2

4. Harry’s mistress tells him in the beginning of the story that Black’s Medical Dictionary says that what is bad for him in his condition?
(a) Talking
(b) Antibiotics
(c) Alcohol
(d) Laying still

5. What is Harry’s response when his companion says, “That's not fair. I love you now. I'll always love you. Don't you love me?”
(a) Yes, I want to marry you, sweetheart
(b) Yes, of course I love you, dear
(c) No. I don’t think so. I never have
(d) Once I loved you. I don’t know anymore

Short Answer Questions

1. Harry’s companion tells him that they always stayed at what hotel in St. Germain?

2. Of Harry, the narrator says, “It was not so much that he lied as that” what?

3. Who does Harry consider “were dull and they drank too much, or they played too much backgammon”?

4. As Harry dies in the end of the story, his female companion is dreaming about the house located where?

5. What does Harry’s mistress repeatedly ask him if he’d like her to do in the beginning of the story?

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