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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. One of Harry’s flashbacks describes a trip for Anatolia. On this trip, Harry remembers making an attack with the newly arrived officers from where?
(a) North Korea
(b) Peru
(c) Israel
(d) Constantine

2. Harry’s “femme de ménage” in Paris is described as having said, “It is the wife of the working man who suffers from” what?
(a) His adulterous affairs
(b) The government’s greed
(c) His lack of education
(d) This shortening of hours

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

4. What war was Harry fighting in when he was in Anatolia?
(a) World War II
(b) The Korean War
(c) World War I
(d) The French and Spanish War

5. What does Harry say “makes the time pass” in the beginning of the story?
(a) Writing
(b) Singing
(c) Making love
(d) Quarrelling

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Black’s Medical Dictionary first published?

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

3. Of death, Harry says in the beginning of the story, “The remarkable thing is that it’s” what?

4. Who does Harry recall as being poor and having been in “romantic awe of him” in his flashbacks to his past?

5. 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”?

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