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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. 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?
(a) Hans
(b) Molo
(c) Nansen
(d) Herr Lent

2. When Harry begins dictating to his companion, he describes a bell on a pole by the door of the log house used to do what?
(a) Call the guards to their stations
(b) Call people in to meals
(c) Warn of a bomb raid
(d) Frighten away bears

3. Where does Harry recall living at Christmas in a woodcutter’s house?
(a) Gauertal
(b) Zurich
(c) Connecticut
(d) Maine

4. How are the flashbacks into Harry’s past delineated from the rest of the narrative in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?
(a) They are in parentheses
(b) They are italicized
(c) They are in boldface
(d) They are in quotations

5. 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”?
(a) A vulture
(b) A lion
(c) A hyena
(d) A leopard

Short Answer Questions

1. The Sette Communi was a group of municipalities in the Veneto region that spoke what language?

2. In Harry’s flashback to fleeing from a British gunner subaltern with a woman, they spend the night together and the next morning Harry arrives where “with a black eye, carrying his coat because one sleeve was missing”?

3. What decorative object does Harry describe outside the Boucherie Chevaline when he dictates to his companion in the latter part of the story?

4. Who does Harry’s companion call for when she awakens at the end of the story?

5. Harry questions in the beginning of the story whether it is sight or what that brings the vultures in?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what ways is Harry’s flight seen as a hopeful ending to the story?

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

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

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

5. What is symbolically significant about the woman’s name in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?

6. What is the emotional state of Harry’s companion in the beginning of “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?

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

8. 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?

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

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

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