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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. The Dada movement began in approximately what year?
(a) 1942
(b) 1916
(c) 1919
(d) 1895

2. What does the phrase “Sans Voir” from the story translate to in English?
(a) Without love
(b) Without voice
(c) Without seeing
(d) Without sound

3. The Hôtel de Crillon is located at the foot of what famous street?
(a) The Rue de Rennes
(b) The Champs-Élysées
(c) Boulevard Haussmann
(d) The Rue de Passy

4. What composer does Harry say to his companion “wrote the words and music. This knowledge that you’re going mad for me”?
(a) Stephen Sondheim
(b) Cole Porter
(c) Irving Berlin
(d) Franz Joseph Haydn

5. 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”?
(a) The Officer’s Ball
(b) His wedding
(c) Buckingham Palace
(d) The Pera Palace

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Harry’s companion call for when she awakens at the end of the story?

2. 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?

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

4. When Harry’s mistress says in the beginning of the story, “Please tell me what I can do,” Harry responds that she can take his leg off or do what?

5. How many winters does the narrator say Harry lived in the Arlberg?

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