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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’s mistress tells him in the beginning of the story that he’s not going to die, he responds by saying, “Don’t be silly. I’m dying now. Ask those bastards.” What does Harry point to when he says this?
(a) The hyenas
(b) The mosquitoes
(c) The flies
(d) The vultures

2. Harry tells his companion in the evening as they sit by the fire, “You know the only thing I've never lost is” what?
(a) Love
(b) Talent
(c) Gratitude
(d) Curiosity

3. The narrator refers to Harry’s mistress as the “kindly caretaker and destroyer of” what?
(a) His lust
(b) His manhood
(c) His ego
(d) His talent

4. Who does Harry’s companion call for when she awakens at the end of the story?
(a) Hans
(b) Molo
(c) Nansen
(d) Lent

5. Harry’s mistress is described as having a “well-known, well-loved face from Spur and” what magazine?
(a) The Urban Socialite
(b) The New Yorker
(c) Society Weekly
(d) Town and Country

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Harry’s mistress repeatedly ask him if he’d like her to do in the beginning of the story?

2. When dictating to his companion, Harry describes living and writing in Paris in a top room of a hotel where he paid how much per month?

3. What animals does Harry see from the plane that are described as “big-headed dots seeming to climb as they moved in long fingers across the plain”?

4. Harry’s companion tells him early in the story that she wishes they’d gone to what city that Harry loves instead?

5. When Harry begins dictating to his companion, he describes a bell on a pole by the door of the log house used to do what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss Harry’s regrets in the story. How do Harry’s regrets correlate with the presence of death?

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

3. How does Harry’s female companion say she feels about Africa in the story?

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

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

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

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

8. How does the narrative style of the story differ between the italicized and non-italicized sections?

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

10. What does the narrator note about Harry’s profession of love to his female companion?

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