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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 happened to the log house that Harry describes to his companion as she dictates in the second half of the story?
(a) It burned down
(b) It was flooded in a storm
(c) It was foreclosed by the bank
(d) It was sold

2. Who is described in a flashback of Christmas day as having “flown across the lines to bomb the Austrian officers' leave train, machine-gunning them as they scattered and ran”?
(a) Julian
(b) Barker
(c) Compton
(d) Williamson

3. Harry tells the woman in the beginning of the story that the vultures appeared the day that what happened?
(a) The day they arrived in Egypt
(b) The day they got engaged
(c) The day the truck broke down
(d) The day they arrived in Africa

4. The bicycle racer that Harry describes to his dictating companion is said to have won what place in the Paris-Tours?
(a) Third place
(b) First place
(c) Second place
(d) Fourth place

5. Near Harry and his mistress’s camp under the trees, the narrator describes a nearly dry water hole where what animals come to in the mornings?
(a) Vultures
(b) Sea eagles
(c) Sand grouse
(d) Elephants

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Harry recalls that Williamson was hit by a stick bomb thrown by someone in what kind of patrol in his flashbacks?

4. Harry tells his companion in the evening as they sit by the fire, “You know the only thing I've never lost is” what?

5. In Harry’s flashback to Schrunz on Christmas day, the narrator describes a glacier above what mountain huts?

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