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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 vultures
(b) The flies
(c) The mosquitoes
(d) The hyenas

2. The Dada movement was originated by a group of artists and poets associated with what café?
(a) The White Horse Tavern
(b) The Café Vordergasse
(c) The Café Fribourg
(d) The Cabaret Voltaire

3. Where does the narrator say Harry “had been happiest in the good time of his life”?
(a) Wyoming
(b) New York
(c) Africa
(d) London

4. The Rue Cardinal Lemoine is described as running in one direction to the river and in the other direction to the narrow crowded world of what street?
(a) The Rue Mouffetard
(b) The Rue des Ecoles
(c) The Rue de Gaillon
(d) The Rue de Rivoli

5. Of what does Harry’s companion say “That’s the good destruction. That’s the way we’re made to be destroyed”?
(a) In love
(b) In the press
(c) In warfare
(d) In bed

Short Answer Questions

1. The bicycle racer that Harry describes to his dictating companion is said to have won what place in the Paris-Tours?

2. What kind of tree is Harry’s cot described as sitting under in the beginning of the story?

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

4. Of Harry’s companion, the narrator says, “She loved anything that was exciting, that involved a change of scene, where there were new people and where things were” what?

5. The woman that Harry took “away from a British gunner subaltern after a row” in one of his flashbacks is described as being from where?

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