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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. In Harry’s flashback to living in the woodcutter’s house, he recalls sleeping on mattresses filled with what?
(a) Tobacco leaves
(b) Juniper leaves
(c) Palm leaves
(d) Beech leaves

2. What kind of African equids does Harry see when he looks out over the plains in the beginning of the story?
(a) Lemurs
(b) Alpacas
(c) Camels
(d) Zebras

3. Harry tells his mistress in the story, “Love is a dunghill. And I’m the” what?
(a) Lucky man who gets to step in it
(b) Mule that eats the hay
(c) Cock that gets on it to crow
(d) Worms underneath wriggling for freedom

4. When Harry and his companion begin arguing in the story, he tells her that what were his sword and his armor?
(a) Their children
(b) Her love
(c) Her passion
(d) Her money

5. How did the chore boy kill the man that beat him in Harry’s memories from the ranch?
(a) He poisoned him
(b) He shot him
(c) He drowned him
(d) He hung him

Short Answer Questions

1. Williamson is described as “a fat man, very brave, and a good officer, although addicted to” what?

2. What composer does Harry say to his companion “wrote the words and music. This knowledge that you’re going mad for me”?

3. Harry’s companion tells him that they always stayed at what hotel in St. Germain?

4. Who argues with the Secretary about whether or not there is snow on the mountains in Harry’s flashback in the beginning of the story?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. How would you characterize the relationship between Harry and his companion? What is their greatest obstacle as a couple?

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

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

4. What information is related to the reader in the author’s brief preface prior to the opening of the story?

5. How does Harry’s demeanor change when death begins moving in on him in the cot?

6. How is death’s movement personified in the story? What happens to Harry at this time?

7. Describe Harry’s memory of the officer named Williamson. What did Harry give Williamson?

8. How would you describe the relationships between men and women in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?

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

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

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