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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 dictating to his companion, Harry describes riding a bike up the only asphalted street in his quarter of Paris which led to a tall hotel where who had died?
(a) Paul Verlaine
(b) Marie Antoinette
(c) Marie LeVeaux
(d) Napoleon Bonaparte

2. The Hôtel de Crillon is located at the foot of what famous street?
(a) The Rue de Rennes
(b) The Rue de Passy
(c) Boulevard Haussmann
(d) The Champs-Élysées

3. Harry says that he and his mistress hired whom instead of a good mechanic?
(a) A swindler from Europe
(b) A half-baked Kikuyu driver
(c) A drunken lorry driver
(d) A voodoo goddess

4. 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

5. What term was popularized by Ernest Hemingway and referred to describe the generation that came of age during World War I?
(a) The Silent Generation
(b) The Lost Generation
(c) The Absurdist Generation
(d) The Beat Generation

Short Answer Questions

1. What location does Harry describe to his dictating companion, where “the flower sellers dyed their flowers in the street and the dye ran over the paving where the autobus started”?

2. What word does the narrator use in the beginning of the story to refer to a type of African gazelles?

3. Of Harry’s old life, the narrator says that he had traded it for what when he fell into his relationship with his female companion?

4. In one of Harry’s flashbacks, he recalls talking to a member of the Kaiser Jägers above the saw-mill about the attack on Perticara and where?

5. What kind of plane does Compton arrive in at the end of the story?

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