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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where does Harry recall living at Christmas in a woodcutter’s house?
2. Who argues with the Secretary about whether or not there is snow on the mountains in Harry’s flashback in the beginning of the story?
3. 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”?
4. What does Harry regret having done “so much that he blunted the edge of his perceptions”?
5. 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?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Harry explain the circumstances that have led him to this fate?
2. What does Harry feel incapable of expressing in words when he dictates to the woman in the story?
3. What does the reader learn about Harry from his flashbacks to Paris? What authors are alluded to in this section?
4. What does the thorn in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” represent symbolically?
5. What information is related to the reader in the author’s brief preface prior to the opening of the story?
6. How does the narrative style of the story differ between the italicized and non-italicized sections?
7. What does Harry ask for when the woman brings him more food after he’s dictated to her? What thoughts consume him here?
8. Why does Harry berate himself as he sits alone after awakening from his nap in the story?
9. How are Harry’s memories in the story related to the image depicted in the author’s preface?
10. Where was “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” first published? How was it received critically?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the theme of death as illustrated through Hemingway’s imagery in the beginning of “The Snows of Kilimanjaro.” What creatures in the beginning of the story are associated with death? How? What do these animals symbolize to the central characters in the story?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss Harry’s perceptions of the very rich and the poor as seen in the narrative. How does Harry describe the wealthy characters he has befriended and/or spent time with? How do these characters differ from those he encountered in the war? How are Harry’s perceptions of the rich illustrated through his relationship with the woman?
Essay Topic 3
Analyze the relationship between Harry and the woman and the conflicts that engage these characters in the beginning of the story. What are the objectives of Harry and the woman? How do these objectives conflict with one another? Why does Harry demean the woman?
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