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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. When Harry begins dictating to his companion, he describes a bell on a pole by the door of the log house used to do what?
(a) Warn of a bomb raid
(b) Call the guards to their stations
(c) Frighten away bears
(d) Call people in to meals

2. What café does Harry describe as being filled with “the smell of dirty sweat and poverty and drunkenness” when dictating to his companion?
(a) The Cabaret Voltaire
(b) The Café des Amateurs
(c) The Café de Asnieres
(d) The Café de Courbevoie

3. Harry scratched himself as he and his companion were moving forward to photograph what animals?
(a) Waterbuck
(b) Vultures
(c) Hyenas
(d) Zebras

4. Where is Monte Corona located?
(a) Portugal
(b) Italy
(c) Spain
(d) Austria

5. The Dada movement was originated by a group of artists and poets associated with what café?
(a) The White Horse Tavern
(b) The Café Vordergasse
(c) The Cabaret Voltaire
(d) The Café Fribourg

Short Answer Questions

1. What composer does Harry say to his companion “wrote the words and music. This knowledge that you’re going mad for me”?

2. When dictating to his companion, Harry describes living in an apartment where you could see the wood and coal man’s place. What did the wood and coal man also sell?

3. The author notes in the preface to the story that the frozen carcass of what animal lies close to the western summit of Kilimanjaro?

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

5. 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?

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