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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 composer does Harry say to his companion “wrote the words and music. This knowledge that you’re going mad for me”?
(a) Stephen Sondheim
(b) Irving Berlin
(c) Franz Joseph Haydn
(d) Cole Porter

2. What decorative object does Harry describe outside the Boucherie Chevaline when he dictates to his companion in the latter part of the story?
(a) A golden wreath
(b) A brass cow’s head
(c) A silver goat’s head
(d) A golden horse’s head

3. Who does Harry consider “were dull and they drank too much, or they played too much backgammon”?
(a) Women
(b) Europeans
(c) Americans
(d) The rich

4. The narrator says that Harry “had chosen to make his living with something else instead of” what?
(a) A pen or a pencil
(b) His mind and heart
(c) A hammer and nail
(d) A suit and tie

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Harry offers Compton breakfast at the end of the story, Compton only accepts what?

2. Harry scratched himself where on his body, leading to his current condition?

3. What comment does Harry make to his companion before saying, “That’s poetry. I’m full of poetry now. Rot and poetry. Rotten poetry”?

4. What river runs through Paris?

5. Harry’s companion tells him early in the story that she wishes they’d gone to what city that Harry loves instead?

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