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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. In one of Harry’s flashbacks, he recalls talking to a member of the Kaiser Jägers above the saw-mill about the attack on Perticara and where?
(a) Cairo
(b) Asalone
(c) Paris
(d) Naples

2. When recalling his heartbreak over losing his first, lost love, Harry recalls picking up a girl outside of what Parisian restaurant?
(a) Maxim’s
(b) Valjean’s
(c) The Four Seasons
(d) Jean George’s

3. In his first flashbacks of memory, Harry recalls “looking out the window and seeing snow on the mountains in” what country?
(a) Bulgaria
(b) Peru
(c) The United States
(d) Switzerland

4. What does Harry say was burned out of the truck when arguing with his companion in the beginning of the story?
(a) A bearing
(b) A piston
(c) A belt
(d) A valve

5. What word from the narrative refers to the act or condition of giving tacit assent, agreement, or consent by silence or without objection?
(a) Acquiescence
(b) Obliqueness
(c) Arrogance
(d) Allusion

Short Answer Questions

1. What word, meaning a wine parlor, does the narrator use when describing the setting of Schrunz in Harry’s flashback?

2. Of what kind of animal does Harry’s companion say, “He’s the one makes the noise at night. I don’t mind it. They’re a filthy animal though”?

3. What term was popularized by Ernest Hemingway and referred to describe the generation that came of age during World War I?

4. One of Harry’s flashbacks describes a trip for Anatolia. On this trip, Harry remembers riding all day through fields of what kinds of flowers?

5. What word meaning a cargo truck does Compton use when he arrives at the end of the story?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does the narrator note about Harry’s profession of love to his female companion?

4. How is death symbolized in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”? What animal in the story’s ending represents death?

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

6. What imagery is depicted as Harry flies in the plane at the end of the story?

7. What memory does Harry first flashback to after awakening from his nap in the story?

8. How would you characterize the relationship between Harry and his companion? What is their greatest obstacle as a couple?

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

10. While his companion is out hunting, Harry considers her character. How does Harry perceive the woman he’s with in this section?

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