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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 is Harry’s mistress’s reply when he says in the beginning of the story, “I don’t want to move. There is no sense in moving now except to make it easier for you”?
(a) That’s cowardly
(b) It doesn’t make it easier for me
(c) Don’t be obtuse
(d) I’m leaving

2. 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 Capital
(c) The Pentagon
(d) The Louvre

3. In his first flashbacks of memory, Harry recalls “looking out the window and seeing snow on the mountains in” what country?
(a) Peru
(b) The United States
(c) Switzerland
(d) Bulgaria

4. 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?
(a) Pigs
(b) Butchered hens
(c) Bad wine
(d) Olives

5. The author’s preface to “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” states that Mount Kilimanjaro is how many feet high?
(a) 20,325
(b) 19,710
(c) 18,210
(d) 15,356

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is described as Harry’s “femme de ménage” in his descriptions of Paris while dictating to his companion?

2. How would you describe the narrator of “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?

3. Many claim that the Dada movement began where?

4. When Harry begins dictating to his companion, he describes a log house, chinked with what on a hill above the lake?

5. As Harry describes his past for his companion to dictate in the second half of the story, he describes the husband of the woman who ran the Bal Musette as having what occupation?

Short Essay Questions

1. How long has Harry noticed the vultures in the opening of the story? What does he remark about their behavior?

2. Discuss the historical context of the story. How is Harry’s story reflective of the global climate at this time?

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

4. How are the “real world” and “dream world” differentiated through the narrative style at the ending of the story?

5. What is revealed about the central characters of the story based solely on the opening dialogue in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?

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

7. What are the details of the letter Harry recalls sending to New York in the story?

8. What was Harry doing when he became scratched by a thorn in the story? What is ironic about this situation and Harry’s ensuing ailment?

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

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

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