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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. Schwarzwald is a wooded mountain range located in the southwest of what country?
(a) Romania
(b) Austria
(c) Germany
(d) Russia

2. What is Harry’s response when his companion says, “That's not fair. I love you now. I'll always love you. Don't you love me?”
(a) Once I loved you. I don’t know anymore
(b) No. I don’t think so. I never have
(c) Yes, I want to marry you, sweetheart
(d) Yes, of course I love you, dear

3. Where is “that old bastard” from that Harry describes as having beaten the chore boy in Harry’s memories of the ranch?
(a) The Forks
(b) The Prairies
(c) The Canyons
(d) The Willows

4. Of death, Harry says in the beginning of the story, “The remarkable thing is that it’s” what?
(a) Frightening
(b) Painless
(c) Cold
(d) Chilling

5. What is the powdered milk brand that Harry’s companion says she’ll have the servants mash potatoes with in the narrative?
(a) Nestle
(b) Klim
(c) Dewberry’s
(d) Atkins

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. What does Harry recall “them” giving the deserter who arrived with the police right behind him in his flashback to living at the woodcutter’s house?

3. In his first flashbacks of memory, Harry recalls “looking out the window and seeing snow on the mountains in” what country?

4. Harry’s companion tells him when she returns with meat that she’s been destroyed how many times before?

5. The name of the western summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro translates to what in English, according to the author’s preface to the story?

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