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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 was Tristan Tzara born?
(a) The United States
(b) Russia
(c) Romania
(d) Germany

2. 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?
(a) Mount Kilimanjaro
(b) Mount Everest
(c) Mount McKinley
(d) Mount Pasubio

3. 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 zebra
(b) A leopard
(c) A vulture
(d) A hyena

4. Many claim that the Dada movement began where?
(a) Amsterdam, the Netherlands
(b) Zurich, Switzerland
(c) New York, New York
(d) Milan, Italy

5. Harry notes to the woman in the beginning of the story that this is the first time the vultures have done what?
(a) Landed on the ground
(b) Flown in circles
(c) Eaten the corpse of an antelope
(d) Called out to other birds

Short Answer Questions

1. In Harry’s flashback to living in the woodcutter’s house, he recalls sleeping on mattresses filled with what?

2. Harry tells the woman that the first thing he did to deserve his fate was not putting what on his wound when he first scratched himself?

3. When was the Hôtel de Crillon opened in Paris?

4. When dictating to his companion, Harry describes riding a bike up the only asphalted street in his quarter of Paris which led to a tall hotel where who had died?

5. The name of the western summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro translates to what in English, according to the author’s preface to the story?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the author depict death in the beginning of the story? What are Harry’s feelings about death here as opposed to the story’s ending?

3. Where was “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” first published? How was it received critically?

4. In what ways does Harry exhibit apathy regarding his situation or life?

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

6. What do you think the imagery at the end of the novel (when Harry is on the plane) represents?

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

8. What imagery is depicted as Harry flies in the plane at the end of the story?

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

10. How is Harry’s flashback to the ranch described? What characters does Harry remember in this setting?

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