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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of tree is Harry’s cot described as sitting under in the beginning of the story?
(a) A beech tree
(b) A coconut tree
(c) A palm tree
(d) A mimosa tree

2. The author’s preface to “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” states that Mount Kilimanjaro is how many feet high?
(a) 15,356
(b) 19,710
(c) 18,210
(d) 20,325

3. In Harry’s flashback to living in the woodcutter’s house, he recalls sleeping on mattresses filled with what?
(a) Beech leaves
(b) Tobacco leaves
(c) Juniper leaves
(d) Palm leaves

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”?
(a) Sloth
(b) Fat
(c) Weakness
(d) Damage

5. The woman that Harry took “away from a British gunner subaltern after a row” in one of his flashbacks is described as being from where?
(a) Brazil
(b) Armenia
(c) Germany
(d) Argentina

6. What war was Harry fighting in when he was in Anatolia?
(a) World War II
(b) World War I
(c) The French and Spanish War
(d) The Korean War

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

8. Of death, Harry says in the beginning of the story, “The remarkable thing is that it’s” what?
(a) Frightening
(b) Chilling
(c) Cold
(d) Painless

9. Of Harry, the narrator says, “He could beat anything, he thought, because nothing could hurt him if he” what?
(a) Acted tough enough
(b) Kept a straight face
(c) Did not care
(d) Was strong

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

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

12. Harry questions in the beginning of the story whether it is sight or what that brings the vultures in?
(a) Empathy
(b) Sound
(c) Intelligence
(d) Scent

13. Where does Harry describe renting a trout stream after the war as his companion dictates?
(a) The Black Forest
(b) The Redwood Forest
(c) The Aspen Forest
(d) The White Forest

14. What is the name of a clear, colorless fruit brandy made from morello cherries that is described in the story?
(a) Kirsch
(b) Ginever
(c) Schnapps
(d) Vodka

15. The narrator says of Harry in the second half of the story, “So this was how you died, in whispers that you” what?
(a) Did not make
(b) Did not hear
(c) Did not remember
(d) Did not consider

Short Answer Questions

1. As his companion dictates, Harry describes renting a trout stream after the war. Harry says that what individual had a fine fishing season that year?

2. 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?

3. The Dada movement was originated by a group of artists and poets associated with what café?

4. Harry’s companion tells him that they always stayed at what hotel in St. Germain?

5. 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”?

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