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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 war was Harry fighting in when he was in Anatolia?
(a) World War II
(b) The French and Spanish War
(c) World War I
(d) The Korean War

2. One of Harry’s flashbacks describes a trip for Anatolia. On this trip, Harry remembers riding all day through fields of what kinds of flowers?
(a) Pansies
(b) Roses
(c) Honeysuckle
(d) Poppies

3. What word, meaning a wine parlor, does the narrator use when describing the setting of Schrunz in Harry’s flashback?
(a) Vinlonge
(b) Vin de Syrah
(c) Weinstube
(d) Vinstube

4. In one of Harry’s flashbacks, he recalls talking to a member of the Kaiser Jägers above the saw-mill about the attack on Perticara and where?
(a) Paris
(b) Asalone
(c) Cairo
(d) Naples

5. The woman that Harry took “away from a British gunner subaltern after a row” in one of his flashbacks is described as being from where?
(a) Armenia
(b) Brazil
(c) Argentina
(d) Germany

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Tristan Tzara born?

2. How is the chore boy described that was left at the ranch and told not to let anyone get any hay in Harry’s recollections?

3. Of what does the narrator say Harry had sold “in one form or another, all his life and when your affections are not too involved you give much better value for the money”?

4. What is the powdered milk brand that Harry’s companion says she’ll have the servants mash potatoes with in the narrative?

5. Many claim that the Dada movement began where?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

6. How would you describe the relationships between men and women in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?

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

8. Describe Harry’s memory of the officer named Williamson. What did Harry give Williamson?

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

10. How have Harry’s feelings about his impending death changed in the course of the story by the ending?

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