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

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

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

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

5. What is the name of a clear, colorless fruit brandy made from morello cherries that is described in the story?
(a) Ginever
(b) Vodka
(c) Schnapps
(d) Kirsch

Short Answer Questions

1. When Harry begins dictating to his companion, he describes a log house, chinked with what on a hill above the lake?

2. One of Harry’s mistress’s children was killed how?

3. Harry tells his companion in the evening as they sit by the fire, “You know the only thing I've never lost is” what?

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

5. Harry’s companion says in the beginning of the story, “I said I’d go anywhere you wanted. If you wanted to shoot we could have gone shooting” where?

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