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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’s mistress tells him in the beginning of the story that he’s not going to die, he responds by saying, “Don’t be silly. I’m dying now. Ask those bastards.” What does Harry point to when he says this?
(a) The flies
(b) The vultures
(c) The mosquitoes
(d) The hyenas

2. How is the chore boy described that was left at the ranch and told not to let anyone get any hay in Harry’s recollections?
(a) A little nerdy squirt
(b) Dumb and deaf
(c) A tall buck
(d) A half-wit

3. 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?
(a) Argots
(b) Aeronauts
(c) Sportifs
(d) L’envers

4. In Harry’s flashback to Schrunz on Christmas day, the narrator describes a glacier above what mountain huts?
(a) The Bodenalpenhaus
(b) The Berghaus-Verein
(c) The Madlenerhaus
(d) The Chamanna Dal Linard

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 Fribourg
(c) The Café Vordergasse
(d) The Cabaret Voltaire

Short Answer Questions

1. Williamson is described as “a fat man, very brave, and a good officer, although addicted to” what?

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

3. What war was Harry fighting in when he was in Anatolia?

4. The narrator says that Harry “had chosen to make his living with something else instead of” what?

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

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