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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 café does Harry describe as being filled with “the smell of dirty sweat and poverty and drunkenness” when dictating to his companion?
(a) The Café de Asnieres
(b) The Café des Amateurs
(c) The Café de Courbevoie
(d) The Cabaret Voltaire

2. What river runs through Paris?
(a) The River Elise
(b) The River Esplanade
(c) The River Thames
(d) The River Seine

3. The Dada movement was born out of reaction to what war?
(a) The Korean War
(b) World War I
(c) World War II
(d) The French and Indian War

4. By what name does the African servant call Harry?
(a) Bwana
(b) Mbanza
(c) Tamgu
(d) Moco’o.

5. When Harry begins dictating to his companion, he describes a log house on a hill above the lake and a road that went up to the hills where Harry had picked what?
(a) Huckleberries
(b) Cherries
(c) Blueberries
(d) Blackberries

Short Answer Questions

1. Of his female companion, Harry thinks to himself as she returns to camp, “she was not pretty, but he liked her” what?

2. In his first flashbacks of memory, Harry recalls “looking out the window and seeing snow on the mountains in” what country?

3. In Harry’s flashback to fleeing from a British gunner subaltern with a woman, they get into a taxi and go to what location along the Bosphorus?

4. In what part of his body is Harry afflicted in the story?

5. Who is described in Harry’s flashback as having “lost it all” while playing cards by lantern light during a blizzard at the mountain huts by Schrunz?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the thorn in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” represent symbolically?

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

3. How does Harry’s behavior toward the woman progress as he drinks before falling asleep in the narrative?

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

5. What does Harry think about when he awakens alone after a nap in the story? Where has his companion gone?

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

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

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

9. What is the woman’s reasoning for going far from the camp to hunt in the story?

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

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