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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. Where does Harry describe renting a trout stream after the war as his companion dictates?
(a) The Aspen Forest
(b) The White Forest
(c) The Black Forest
(d) The Redwood Forest

2. In Harry’s flashback to living in the woodcutter’s house, he recalls sleeping on mattresses filled with what?
(a) Tobacco leaves
(b) Palm leaves
(c) Juniper leaves
(d) Beech leaves

3. What decorative object does Harry describe outside the Boucherie Chevaline when he dictates to his companion in the latter part of the story?
(a) A golden horse’s head
(b) A brass cow’s head
(c) A golden wreath
(d) A silver goat’s head

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

5. Of Harry and his mistress, the narrator says, “It was not her fault that when he went to her he was” what?
(a) Already over
(b) Over the hill
(c) Depressed
(d) Already devoid of talent

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Harry recall “them” giving the deserter who arrived with the police right behind him in his flashback to living at the woodcutter’s house?

2. By what name does the author assert the western summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro is known as in the author’s preface to the story?

3. In Harry’s flashback to fleeing from a British gunner subaltern with a woman, they get into a taxi and go to what location along the Bosphorus?

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

5. Harry’s companion tells him that they always stayed at what hotel in St. Germain?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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