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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 illness did Hemingway contract during a 1933 trip to Africa that he later reflected in his story “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?
(a) Dysentery
(b) Tuberculosis
(c) Malaria
(d) Gangrene

2. How many winters does the narrator say Harry lived in the Arlberg?
(a) 2
(b) 10
(c) 4
(d) 3

3. Harry’s mistress is described as having a “well-known, well-loved face from Spur and” what magazine?
(a) The New Yorker
(b) Town and Country
(c) Society Weekly
(d) The Urban Socialite

4. Harry’s companion tells him when she returns from hunting, “The boys have the wood all ready and the grass to make” what?
(a) The beds
(b) The smudge
(c) The hut
(d) The gurney

5. By what name does the African servant call Harry?
(a) Tamgu
(b) Bwana
(c) Mbanza
(d) Moco’o.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long ago was it that Harry scratched himself, leading ultimately to his current condition?

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

3. When dictating to his companion, Harry describes riding a bike up the only asphalted street in his quarter of Paris which led to a tall hotel where who had died?

4. What word from the story refers to tight-fitting trousers worn primarily for horseback riding?

5. Many claim that the Dada movement began where?

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