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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 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

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

3. Harry questions in the beginning of the story whether it is sight or what that brings the vultures in?
(a) Sound
(b) Scent
(c) Intelligence
(d) Empathy

4. The narrator says of Harry in the second half of the story, “So this was how you died, in whispers that you” what?
(a) Did not hear
(b) Did not make
(c) Did not consider
(d) Did not remember

5. When recalling his first, lost love, Harry recalls writing to tell her that he thought he saw her outside of what location and “it made him go all faint and sick inside”?
(a) The Pentagon
(b) The Regence
(c) The Capital
(d) The Louvre

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

2. Harry’s companion tells him when she returns from hunting, “The boys have the wood all ready and the grass to make” what?

3. Who does Harry recall as being poor and having been in “romantic awe of him” in his flashbacks to his past?

4. What word from the story refers to tight-fitting trousers worn primarily for horseback riding?

5. The Hôtel de Crillon is located at the foot of what famous street?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Harry ask for when the woman brings him more food after he’s dictated to her? What thoughts consume him here?

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

3. How does Harry’s demeanor change when death begins moving in on him in the cot?

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

5. How long has Harry noticed the vultures in the opening of the story? What does he remark about their behavior?

6. What elements of Harry’s past show the greatest impact on him as a character?

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

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

9. How are the “real world” and “dream world” differentiated through the narrative style at the ending of the story?

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

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