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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. Harry scratched himself where on his body, leading to his current condition?
(a) His left knee
(b) His left elbow
(c) His right hand
(d) His right knee

2. The Dada movement was originated by a group of artists and poets associated with what café?
(a) The Café Vordergasse
(b) The Cabaret Voltaire
(c) The White Horse Tavern
(d) The Café Fribourg

3. Of Harry, the narrator says in the beginning of the story, “Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until” when?
(a) He had the intelligence to write them well
(b) He had the inspiration to write them
(c) He knew enough to write them well
(d) He had the skills to write them well

4. Perticara is a town located in what country?
(a) Austria
(b) Italy
(c) France
(d) Belgium

5. When Harry apologizes and tells his companion that he’s never loved anyone else the way he loved her, the narrator comments, “He slipped into the familiar lie he made” what by?
(a) His faithful reverie
(b) His solicitations
(c) His bread and butter
(d) His novels

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. Of death, Harry says in the beginning of the story, “The remarkable thing is that it’s” what?

4. In one flashback, Harry recalls “the man who had the fox to sell when they had walked into” what town?

5. Of Harry’s old life, the narrator says that he had traded it for what when he fell into his relationship with his female companion?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the reader learn about Harry from his flashbacks to Paris? What authors are alluded to in this section?

3. Discuss Harry’s regrets in the story. How do Harry’s regrets correlate with the presence of death?

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

5. How is Harry’s physical condition described in the beginning of the story? What thoughts consume Harry regarding his condition in the beginning of the story?

6. How does Harry’s behavior toward the woman progress as he drinks before falling asleep in the narrative?

7. Why does Harry berate himself as he sits alone after awakening from his nap in the story?

8. How is Harry shown to utilize his talents in the narrative?

9. What does the thorn in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” represent symbolically?

10. How is death’s movement personified in the story? What happens to Harry at this time?

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