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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. When Harry begins dictating to his companion, he describes a log house, chinked with what on a hill above the lake?
(a) Coal
(b) Mortar
(c) Paint
(d) Ivy

2. What café does Harry describe as being filled with “the smell of dirty sweat and poverty and drunkenness” when dictating to his companion?
(a) The Cabaret Voltaire
(b) The Café de Asnieres
(c) The Café des Amateurs
(d) The Café de Courbevoie

3. Where does the narrator say Harry “had been happiest in the good time of his life”?
(a) Africa
(b) New York
(c) Wyoming
(d) London

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

5. What French word does the narrator use to describe drunkenness in the narrative?
(a) Louchébem
(b) Ivresse
(c) Klezmer-loshn
(d) Verlan

Short Answer Questions

1. One of Harry’s flashbacks describes a trip for Anatolia. On this trip, Harry remembers making an attack with the newly arrived officers from where?

2. By what name does the African servant call Harry?

3. The Dada movement began in approximately what year?

4. In Harry’s flashback to living in the woodcutter’s house, he recalls sleeping on mattresses filled with what?

5. The name of the western summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro translates to what in English, according to the author’s preface to the story?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Discuss the historical context of the story. How is Harry’s story reflective of the global climate at this time?

3. What information is related to the reader in the author’s brief preface prior to the opening of the story?

4. How is death symbolized in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”? What animal in the story’s ending represents death?

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. What does Harry think about when he awakens alone after a nap in the story? Where has his companion gone?

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

8. What imagery in the story forms its strongest symbolic element?

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

10. What is revealed about the central characters of the story based solely on the opening dialogue in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?

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