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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. By what name does Harry refer to his companion’s “people” during their argument in the beginning of the story?
(a) Your ridiculous, idiotic West Monroe, Louisiana people
(b) Your goddamned WASP New England people
(c) Your goddamned Old Westbury Saratoga, Palm Beach people
(d) Your godforsaken North Country Irish people

2. Where does Harry recall living at Christmas in a woodcutter’s house?
(a) Zurich
(b) Gauertal
(c) Connecticut
(d) Maine

3. 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) Asnieres-sur-Seine
(b) The Place Contrescarpe
(c) Montparnasse
(d) Aubervilliers

4. 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?
(a) Anger that this was the end of it
(b) Apathy about going on
(c) Sorrow for all his mistakes
(d) Irritation that he had to wait

5. What drink does Harry ask the African servant to bring him in the beginning of the story?
(a) Ginger ale
(b) Rum and soda
(c) Whiskey-soda
(d) Lemonade

Short Answer Questions

1. In Harry’s flashback to living in the woodcutter’s house, he recalls sleeping on mattresses filled with what?

2. In Harry’s flashback to the fighting in Anatolia, the narrator remarks, “That was the day he'd first seen dead men wearing white ballet skirts and upturned shoes with” what on them?

3. Where does Compton appear to be flying Harry to at the end of the story?

4. What river runs through Paris?

5. Where does Harry describe renting a trout stream after the war as his companion dictates?

(see the answer key)

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