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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 on a hill above the lake. What kind of trees are described as running from the house to the dock?
(a) Lombardy poplars
(b) Douglas firs
(c) Redwood trees
(d) Jefferson pines

2. 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) His adulterous affairs
(c) The government’s greed
(d) His lack of education

3. 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 Regence
(b) The Pentagon
(c) The Louvre
(d) The Capital

4. When was the Hôtel de Crillon opened in Paris?
(a) 1825
(b) 1909
(c) 1915
(d) 1925

5. How did the chore boy kill the man that beat him in Harry’s memories from the ranch?
(a) He hung him
(b) He drowned him
(c) He shot him
(d) He poisoned him

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is described in Harry’s flashback as having “lost it all” while playing cards by lantern light during a blizzard at the mountain huts by Schrunz?

2. What does Harry say was burned out of the truck when arguing with his companion in the beginning of the story?

3. What word does the narrator use in the beginning of the story to refer to a type of African gazelles?

4. What is the name of the African servant to Harry and his mistress in the story?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the gangrene in Harry’s leg represent symbolically in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?

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

3. What indications does the author give that Harry’s flight with Compton is a dream?

4. What do you think the imagery at the end of the novel (when Harry is on the plane) represents?

5. How does Harry’s behavior toward the woman progress as he drinks before falling asleep in the narrative?

6. In what ways does Harry exhibit apathy regarding his situation or life?

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

8. 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?

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

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

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