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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 word, meaning a wine parlor, does the narrator use when describing the setting of Schrunz in Harry’s flashback?
(a) Weinstube
(b) Vin de Syrah
(c) Vinstube
(d) Vinlonge

2. What comment does Harry make to his companion before saying, “That’s poetry. I’m full of poetry now. Rot and poetry. Rotten poetry”?
(a) A letter’s better
(b) You rich bitch
(c) A rhyme in time
(d) Look at the book

3. 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?
(a) A butcher
(b) A schoolteacher
(c) A hotel proprietor
(d) A ski instructor

4. When Harry apologizes and tells his companion that he’s never loved anyone else the way he loved her, the narrator comments, “He slipped into the familiar lie he made” what by?
(a) His novels
(b) His faithful reverie
(c) His solicitations
(d) His bread and butter

5. Compton tells Harry at the end of the story that he’ll have to stop where to refuel?
(a) Cairo
(b) Zurich
(c) Paris
(d) Arusha

Short Answer Questions

1. The author’s preface to “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” states that Mount Kilimanjaro is how many feet high?

2. Harry scratched himself as he and his companion were moving forward to photograph what animals?

3. When Harry awakens in the evening, the African servant tells him that his companion has gone to do what?

4. Of Harry and his mistress, the narrator says, “It was not her fault that when he went to her he was” what?

5. The Dada movement was originated by a group of artists and poets associated with what café?

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