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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 happened to the log house that Harry describes to his companion as she dictates in the second half of the story?
(a) It was flooded in a storm
(b) It was foreclosed by the bank
(c) It burned down
(d) It was sold

2. In what year was “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” adapted and produced to film, starring Gregory Peck as Harry?
(a) 1952
(b) 1948
(c) 1942
(d) 1936

3. What comment does Harry make to his companion before saying, “That’s poetry. I’m full of poetry now. Rot and poetry. Rotten poetry”?
(a) Look at the book
(b) A rhyme in time
(c) A letter’s better
(d) You rich bitch

4. As his companion dictates, Harry describes renting a trout stream after the war. Harry says that what individual had a fine fishing season that year?
(a) A hotel proprietor
(b) A schoolteacher
(c) A ski instructor
(d) A butcher

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?
(a) In Wyoming
(b) In Germany
(c) In Canada
(d) In Hungary

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Harry’s “femme de ménage” in Paris is described as having said, “It is the wife of the working man who suffers from” what?

3. Harry’s companion tells him when she returns from hunting, “The boys have the wood all ready and the grass to make” what?

4. How many children did Harry’s female companion have?

5. The woman that Harry took “away from a British gunner subaltern after a row” in one of his flashbacks is described as being from where?

(see the answer key)

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