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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 does Harry’s mistress repeatedly ask him if he’d like her to do in the beginning of the story?
(a) Read to him
(b) Call his mother
(c) Sing for him
(d) Bathe him

2. The name of the western summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro translates to what in English, according to the author’s preface to the story?
(a) The Den of the Dragon
(b) The Scaffold of Life
(c) The House of God
(d) The Palace of Kings

3. What does Harry recall giving Williamson instead of shooting him when Williamson was dying from his injuries?
(a) All his morphine pills
(b) His own rifle
(c) A bottle of whiskey
(d) A love letter from his wife

4. Of what kind of animal does Harry’s companion say, “He’s the one makes the noise at night. I don’t mind it. They’re a filthy animal though”?
(a) A lion
(b) A hyena
(c) A vulture
(d) A leopard

5. Who is described as having been in the Kaiser Jägers and later went hunting hares with Harry in a flashback in the beginning of the story?
(a) Julian
(b) Hans
(c) Tristan
(d) Barker

Short Answer Questions

1. In one of Harry’s flashbacks, he recalls talking to a member of the Kaiser Jägers above the saw-mill about the fighting on what mountain?

2. In Harry’s flashback to the fighting in Anatolia, the narrator remarks, “That was the day he'd first seen dead men wearing white ballet skirts and upturned shoes with” what on them?

3. When dictating to his companion, Harry describes living in an apartment where you could see the wood and coal man’s place. What did the wood and coal man also sell?

4. What term was popularized by Ernest Hemingway and referred to describe the generation that came of age during World War I?

5. 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”?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the reader learn about Harry from his flashbacks to Paris? What authors are alluded to in this section?

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

3. How is Harry shown to utilize his talents in the narrative?

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

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

6. What memories do Harry first recall through flashback in the story?

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

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

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

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

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