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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 affliction has Harry contracted in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?
(a) Dysentery
(b) Malaria
(c) Gangrene
(d) Typhus
2. What drink does Harry ask the African servant to bring him in the beginning of the story?
(a) Ginger ale
(b) Lemonade
(c) Rum and soda
(d) Whiskey-soda
3. How is the chore boy described that was left at the ranch and told not to let anyone get any hay in Harry’s recollections?
(a) A little nerdy squirt
(b) A tall buck
(c) Dumb and deaf
(d) A half-wit
4. Harry and the woman are waiting for the arrival of what in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?
(a) A rescue plane
(b) A rescue ship
(c) An Army vehicle
(d) A cargo train
5. As Harry dies in the end of the story, his companion hears what animal stop whimpering and begin to make a strange human sound?
(a) A hyena
(b) A leopard
(c) A zebra
(d) A vulture
Short Answer Questions
1. Where was Tristan Tzara born?
2. Of Harry, the narrator says, “He could beat anything, he thought, because nothing could hurt him if he” what?
3. Anatolia is a region of what current country?
4. Harry scratched himself as he and his companion were moving forward to photograph what animals?
5. What kind of plane does Compton arrive in at the end of the story?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Harry’s female companion say she feels about Africa in the story?
2. What sound awakens the woman after Harry’s death? What does she do?
3. What does Harry feel incapable of expressing in words when he dictates to the woman in the story?
4. What happens in the narrative when the text transitions to italics for the first time?
5. How would you describe the relationships between men and women in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?
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 is death’s movement personified in the story? What happens to Harry at this time?
8. How are Harry’s memories in the story related to the image depicted in the author’s preface?
9. How is the scene described when Harry awakens and sees Compton in the end of the story?
10. What thoughts does Harry have about his past relationships to the “very rich”? What does this past have to do with Harry’s decision to come to Africa?
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