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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. Harry tells the woman in the beginning of “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” that he watched the way the vultures sailed carefully in case he ever wanted to do what?
(a) Paint them in a picture
(b) Use them in a song
(c) Use them in a sculpture
(d) Use them in a story

2. Vorarlberg is located in what current nation?
(a) Austria
(b) Poland
(c) Germany
(d) Russia

3. 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) Sportifs
(c) L’envers
(d) Aeronauts

4. When was the Hôtel de Crillon opened in Paris?
(a) 1925
(b) 1909
(c) 1915
(d) 1825

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Harry recall as being poor and having been in “romantic awe of him” in his flashbacks to his past?

2. The narrator says that Harry “had chosen to make his living with something else instead of” what?

3. Harry says that he and his mistress hired whom instead of a good mechanic?

4. 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”?

5. What word meaning a cargo truck does Compton use when he arrives at the end of the story?

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