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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 kind of plane does Compton arrive in at the end of the story?
(a) A Puss Moth
(b) An Airbus
(c) A B-52.
(d) A Cessna

2. Compton watches for holes made by what animals as he prepares to take off in the plane at the end of the story?
(a) Warthogs
(b) Hyenas
(c) Boas
(d) Zebras

3. Harry’s mistress tells him in the beginning of “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” “You can’t die if you don’t” what?
(a) Want to
(b) Give up
(c) Try to
(d) Fight

4. When Harry’s mistress says in the beginning of the story, “Please tell me what I can do,” Harry responds that she can take his leg off or do what?
(a) Shoot him
(b) Call his daughter
(c) Leave him alone
(d) Write out his will

5. Of Harry, the narrator says in the beginning of the story, “Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until” when?
(a) He had the inspiration to write them
(b) He had the intelligence to write them well
(c) He had the skills to write them well
(d) He knew enough to write them well

Short Answer Questions

1. What word meaning a cargo truck does Compton use when he arrives at the end of the story?

2. Harry’s companion tells him when she returns with meat that she’s been destroyed how many times before?

3. Who is described in a flashback of Christmas day as having “flown across the lines to bomb the Austrian officers' leave train, machine-gunning them as they scattered and ran”?

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

5. In what year was “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” adapted and produced to film, starring Gregory Peck as Harry?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is the scene described when Harry awakens and sees Compton in the end of the story?

3. What is the first setting that Harry describes when dictating to the woman?

4. What is symbolically significant about the woman’s name in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?

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

6. Why does Harry berate himself as he sits alone after awakening from his nap in the story?

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

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

9. How would you characterize the relationship between Harry and his companion? What is their greatest obstacle as a couple?

10. How are Harry’s memories in the story related to the image depicted in the author’s preface?

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