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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’s “femme de ménage” in Paris is described as having said, “It is the wife of the working man who suffers from” what?
(a) This shortening of hours
(b) The government’s greed
(c) His lack of education
(d) His adulterous affairs

2. What is Harry’s response when his companion says, “That's not fair. I love you now. I'll always love you. Don't you love me?”
(a) No. I don’t think so. I never have
(b) Yes, of course I love you, dear
(c) Yes, I want to marry you, sweetheart
(d) Once I loved you. I don’t know anymore

3. 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) Weakness
(c) Damage
(d) Fat

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

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 lion
(b) A vulture
(c) A hyena
(d) A leopard

Short Answer Questions

1. Harry’s companion says in the beginning of the story, “I said I’d go anywhere you wanted. If you wanted to shoot we could have gone shooting” where?

2. Vorarlberg is located in what current nation?

3. What is Harry’s mistress’s reply when he says in the beginning of the story, “I don’t want to move. There is no sense in moving now except to make it easier for you”?

4. 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?

5. What location does Harry describe to his dictating companion, where “the flower sellers dyed their flowers in the street and the dye ran over the paving where the autobus started”?

Short Essay Questions

1. What news does the woman relate when she returns to camp after Harry’s awaken from his nap?

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

3. 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?

4. What does Harry feel incapable of expressing in words when he dictates to the woman in the story?

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

6. What happens in the narrative when the text transitions to italics for the first time?

7. When Harry “returns” from his first reverie into his past, what comments does he make to his female companion?

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

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

10. What thoughts does Harry have about his past relationships to the “very rich”? What does this past have to do with Harry’s decision to come to Africa?

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