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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 Harry’s flashback to the fighting in Anatolia, the narrator remarks, “That was the day he'd first seen dead men wearing white ballet skirts and upturned shoes with” what on them?
(a) Bullets
(b) Buckles
(c) Pompons
(d) Letters

2. 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?
(a) Complicated
(b) A struggle
(c) Interesting
(d) Pleasant

3. Harry tells the woman in the beginning of “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” that he watched the way the vultures sailed carefully in case he ever wanted to do what?
(a) Paint them in a picture
(b) Use them in a sculpture
(c) Use them in a song
(d) Use them in a story

4. When Harry thinks back to the railway station in Karagatch, he recalls that he was leaving what geographical area after the retreat?
(a) Thrace
(b) Macedonia
(c) Illyria
(d) Scythia

5. When Harry begins dictating to his companion, he describes a log house on a hill above the lake. What kind of trees are described as running from the house to the dock?
(a) Douglas firs
(b) Redwood trees
(c) Lombardy poplars
(d) Jefferson pines

Short Answer Questions

1. What illness did Hemingway contract during a 1933 trip to Africa that he later reflected in his story “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?

2. How many children did Harry’s female companion have?

3. When dictating to his companion, Harry describes living and writing in Paris in a top room of a hotel where he paid how much per month?

4. The narrator says that Harry planned this safari in the hopes that he could burn what off his soul in “the way a fighter went to the mountains to work and train in order to burn it out of his body”?

5. Where does Compton appear to be flying Harry to at the end of the story?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Harry ask for when the woman brings him more food after he’s dictated to her? What thoughts consume him here?

3. What was Harry doing when he became scratched by a thorn in the story? What is ironic about this situation and Harry’s ensuing ailment?

4. How does Harry’s character differ in the flashbacks from his reality in the present?

5. How are Harry’s memories in the story related to the image depicted in the author’s preface?

6. What indications does the author give that Harry’s flight with Compton is a dream?

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

8. How does Harry explain the circumstances that have led him to this fate?

9. In what ways does Harry exhibit apathy regarding his situation or life?

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

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