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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 his companion in the evening as they sit by the fire, “You know the only thing I've never lost is” what?
(a) Curiosity
(b) Gratitude
(c) Love
(d) Talent

2. Harry’s mistress tells him in the beginning of “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” “You can’t die if you don’t” what?
(a) Want to
(b) Try to
(c) Give up
(d) Fight

3. 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) Use them in a song
(b) Use them in a story
(c) Use them in a sculpture
(d) Paint them in a picture

4. Who does Harry recall as being poor and having been in “romantic awe of him” in his flashbacks to his past?
(a) Molo
(b) Hans
(c) Nansen
(d) Julian

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What drink does Harry ask the African servant to bring him in the beginning of the story?

3. 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”?

4. As Harry dies in the end of the story, his female companion is dreaming about the house located where?

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

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