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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 does Harry say was burned out of the truck when arguing with his companion in the beginning of the story?
(a) A valve
(b) A belt
(c) A piston
(d) A bearing

2. In Harry’s flashback to living in the woodcutter’s house, what large porcelain object is described as filling half the room?
(a) A bed stand
(b) A table
(c) A bathtub
(d) A stove

3. 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 gurney
(d) The hut

4. 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) Atkins
(c) Klim
(d) Dewberry’s

5. What does the word “skischule” translate to in English?
(a) Ski school
(b) Butcher
(c) Wine parlor
(d) Hot dog stand

Short Answer Questions

1. Harry tells the woman in the beginning of the story that the vultures appeared the day that what happened?

2. Harry questions in the beginning of the story whether it is sight or what that brings the vultures in?

3. What term was popularized by Ernest Hemingway and referred to describe the generation that came of age during World War I?

4. When describing his past to his companion who dictates, Harry describes the people of the Place Contrescarpe as being of two kinds: the drunkards and the what?

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

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