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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author notes in the preface to the story that the frozen carcass of what animal lies close to the western summit of Kilimanjaro?
(a) A leopard
(b) A lion
(c) A wildebeest
(d) A hyena

2. The narrator says that Harry “had chosen to make his living with something else instead of” what?
(a) A suit and tie
(b) His mind and heart
(c) A hammer and nail
(d) A pen or a pencil

3. Harry’s companion tells him when she returns with meat that she’s been destroyed how many times before?
(a) Five or six
(b) Two or three
(c) Three or four
(d) Countless

4. 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

5. What illness did Hemingway contract during a 1933 trip to Africa that he later reflected in his story “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?
(a) Malaria
(b) Dysentery
(c) Tuberculosis
(d) Gangrene

6. Of Harry, the narrator says, “It was not so much that he lied as that” what?
(a) He had nothing else to say
(b) He needed her money
(c) He no longer knew the truth
(d) There was no truth to tell

7. What animals does Harry see from the plane that are described as “big-headed dots seeming to climb as they moved in long fingers across the plain”?
(a) Vultures
(b) Zebras
(c) Wildebeests
(d) Hyenas

8. When Harry first drifts into the flashback of his memories in the story, he sees in his mind a railway station in Karagatch. In what country is Karagatch located?
(a) Russia
(b) Spain
(c) Germany
(d) Turkey

9. Williamson is described as “a fat man, very brave, and a good officer, although addicted to” what?
(a) Fantastic shows
(b) Drink and gambling
(c) Women and sex
(d) Bad music

10. What is Harry’s mistress’s reply when he says in the beginning of the story, “I don’t want to move. There is no sense in moving now except to make it easier for you”?
(a) It doesn’t make it easier for me
(b) Don’t be obtuse
(c) That’s cowardly
(d) I’m leaving

11. In Harry’s flashback to fleeing from a British gunner subaltern with a woman, they spend the night together and the next morning Harry arrives where “with a black eye, carrying his coat because one sleeve was missing”?
(a) His wedding
(b) The Officer’s Ball
(c) Buckingham Palace
(d) The Pera Palace

12. Harry’s companion tells him that they always stayed at what hotel in St. Germain?
(a) The Pavillion Henri-Quatre
(b) The Hôtel de Crillon
(c) The Hotel II Salviatino
(d) The Café Royal Hotel

13. When recalling his first, lost love, Harry recalls writing to tell her that he thought he saw her outside of what location and “it made him go all faint and sick inside”?
(a) The Regence
(b) The Capital
(c) The Louvre
(d) The Pentagon

14. When was the Hôtel de Crillon opened in Paris?
(a) 1925
(b) 1909
(c) 1915
(d) 1825

15. Compton watches for holes made by what animals as he prepares to take off in the plane at the end of the story?
(a) Warthogs
(b) Hyenas
(c) Boas
(d) Zebras

Short Answer Questions

1. In Harry’s flashback to living in the woodcutter’s house, he recalls sleeping on mattresses filled with what?

2. It is noted of Harry’s past, “It was strange, too, wasn't it, that when he fell in love with another woman, that woman should always have more” what “than the last one?”

3. 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?

4. Mount Kilimanjaro is located in what country currently?

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

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