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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. What word from the story refers to tight-fitting trousers worn primarily for horseback riding?
(a) Dongles
(b) Patsies
(c) Derbies
(d) Jodhpurs

2. Schwarzwald is a wooded mountain range located in the southwest of what country?
(a) Russia
(b) Romania
(c) Austria
(d) Germany

3. Of his female companion, Harry thinks to himself as she returns to camp, “she was not pretty, but he liked her” what?
(a) Back
(b) Face
(c) Hands
(d) Lips

4. Harry recalls that Williamson was hit by a stick bomb thrown by someone in what kind of patrol in his flashbacks?
(a) A German patrol
(b) A Japanese patrol
(c) A British patrol
(d) A French patrol

5. 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”?
(a) Buckingham Palace
(b) The Pera Palace
(c) The Officer’s Ball
(d) His wedding

Short Answer Questions

1. As his companion dictates, Harry describes renting a trout stream after the war and says there were two ways to walk it. One was down the valley from where?

2. What is the name of the African servant to Harry and his mistress in the story?

3. The Dada movement was born out of reaction to what war?

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

5. Of Harry and his mistress, the narrator says, “It was not her fault that when he went to her he was” what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the theme of death illustrated in the ending of the story? What is ironic about this depiction?

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

3. What do Harry and his female companion first argue about in the story?

4. How does the narrative style of the story differ between the italicized and non-italicized sections?

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

6. What sound awakens the woman after Harry’s death? What does she do?

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

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

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

10. What is the woman’s reasoning for going far from the camp to hunt in the story?

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