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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. When recalling his heartbreak over losing his first, lost love, Harry recalls picking up a girl outside of what Parisian restaurant?
(a) The Four Seasons
(b) Valjean’s
(c) Jean George’s
(d) Maxim’s

2. Of Harry’s old life, the narrator says that he had traded it for what when he fell into his relationship with his female companion?
(a) Love
(b) Passion
(c) Security
(d) Admiration

3. Of his female companion, Harry thinks to himself as she returns to camp, “she was not pretty, but he liked her” what?
(a) Hands
(b) Lips
(c) Face
(d) Back

4. In one of Harry’s flashbacks, he recalls talking to a member of the Kaiser Jägers above the saw-mill about the attack on Perticara and where?
(a) Paris
(b) Naples
(c) Cairo
(d) Asalone

5. Harry’s companion tells him when she returns with meat that she’s been destroyed how many times before?
(a) Countless
(b) Three or four
(c) Two or three
(d) Five or six

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Of what does the narrator say Harry had sold “in one form or another, all his life and when your affections are not too involved you give much better value for the money”?

5. The Dada movement began in approximately what year?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What imagery is depicted as Harry flies in the plane at 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. What news does the woman relate when she returns to camp after Harry’s awaken from his nap?

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

6. How does the narrative style of the story differ between the italicized and non-italicized sections?

7. What does Harry ask for when the woman brings him more food after he’s dictated to her? What thoughts consume him here?

8. What does Harry feel incapable of expressing in words when he dictates to the woman in the story?

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

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

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