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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 does Harry recall living at Christmas in a woodcutter’s house?
(a) Zurich
(b) Maine
(c) Connecticut
(d) Gauertal

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?
(a) Alcohol
(b) Iodine
(c) A bandage
(d) Peroxide

3. Of Harry, the narrator says, “It was not so much that he lied as that” what?
(a) There was no truth to tell
(b) He had nothing else to say
(c) He no longer knew the truth
(d) He needed her money

4. Of Harry, the narrator says, “He could beat anything, he thought, because nothing could hurt him if he” what?
(a) Was strong
(b) Kept a straight face
(c) Did not care
(d) Acted tough enough

5. When Harry begins dictating to his companion, he describes a log house, chinked with what on a hill above the lake?
(a) Coal
(b) Ivy
(c) Paint
(d) Mortar

Short Answer Questions

1. When Harry thinks back to the railway station in Karagatch, he recalls that he was leaving what geographical area after the retreat?

2. Of whom does Harry think, “You said that you could write about these people; that you were not really of them but a spy in their country”?

3. Near Harry and his mistress’s camp under the trees, the narrator describes a nearly dry water hole where what animals come to in the mornings?

4. What affliction has Harry contracted in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?

5. Of Harry, the narrator says, “It was never what he had done, but always” what?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what ways is Harry’s flight seen as a hopeful ending to the story?

2. How is the scene described when Harry awakens and sees Compton in the end of the story?

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

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

5. When Harry “returns” from his first reverie into his past, what comments does he make to his female companion?

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

7. What is symbolically significant about the woman’s name in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?

8. What does the gangrene in Harry’s leg represent symbolically in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?

9. 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?

10. What indications does the author give that Harry’s flight with Compton is a dream?

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