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The Snows of Kilimanjaro Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 145 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When dictating to his companion, Harry describes living in an apartment where you could see the wood and coal man’s place. What did the wood and coal man also sell?
(a) Pigs
(b) Butchered hens
(c) Bad wine
(d) Olives

2. Who is described as having been in the Kaiser Jägers and later went hunting hares with Harry in a flashback in the beginning of the story?
(a) Julian
(b) Hans
(c) Barker
(d) Tristan

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?
(a) Sea eagles
(b) Elephants
(c) Vultures
(d) Sand grouse

4. The Dada movement was born out of reaction to what war?
(a) World War I
(b) The French and Indian War
(c) World War II
(d) The Korean War

5. What French word does the narrator use to describe drunkenness in the narrative?
(a) Klezmer-loshn
(b) Verlan
(c) Ivresse
(d) Louchébem

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the phrase “Sans Voir” from the story translate to in English?

2. What word from the narrative refers to the act or condition of giving tacit assent, agreement, or consent by silence or without objection?

3. In Harry’s flashback to fleeing from a British gunner subaltern with a woman, they get into a taxi and go to what location along the Bosphorus?

4. As Harry dies in the end of the story, his female companion is dreaming about the house located where?

5. In his first flashbacks of memory, Harry recalls “looking out the window and seeing snow on the mountains in” what country?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the “real world” and “dream world” differentiated through the narrative style at the ending of the story?

2. What is the woman’s reasoning for going far from the camp to hunt in the story?

3. How is Harry’s flashback to the ranch described? What characters does Harry remember in this setting?

4. How would you describe the narrator of the story? Is the narrator’s perspective limited or omniscient?

5. What happens in the narrative when the text transitions to italics for the first time?

6. What memories do Harry first recall through flashback in the story?

7. When Harry “returns” from his first reverie into his past, what comments does he make to his female companion?

8. How have Harry’s feelings about his impending death changed in the course of the story by the ending?

9. What is the first setting that Harry describes when dictating to the woman?

10. How is the theme of death depicted from the opening of the story?

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