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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. Of what kind of animal does Harry’s companion say, “He’s the one makes the noise at night. I don’t mind it. They’re a filthy animal though”?
(a) A hyena
(b) A vulture
(c) A lion
(d) A leopard

2. The narrator refers to Harry’s mistress as the “kindly caretaker and destroyer of” what?
(a) His manhood
(b) His lust
(c) His ego
(d) His talent

3. What composer does Harry say to his companion “wrote the words and music. This knowledge that you’re going mad for me”?
(a) Cole Porter
(b) Franz Joseph Haydn
(c) Stephen Sondheim
(d) Irving Berlin

4. Of what does Harry’s companion say “That’s the good destruction. That’s the way we’re made to be destroyed”?
(a) In the press
(b) In warfare
(c) In bed
(d) In love

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) Eaten the corpse of an antelope
(c) Called out to other birds
(d) Flown in circles

Short Answer Questions

1. One of Harry’s mistress’s children was killed how?

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

3. 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?

4. The narrator says that Harry planned this safari in the hopes that he could burn what off his soul in “the way a fighter went to the mountains to work and train in order to burn it out of his body”?

5. What word, meaning a wine parlor, does the narrator use when describing the setting of Schrunz in Harry’s flashback?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Harry shown to utilize his talents in the narrative?

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

3. How is death symbolized in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”? What animal in the story’s ending represents death?

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

5. 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?

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

7. What elements of Harry’s past show the greatest impact on him as a character?

8. How is the theme of death depicted from the opening of the story?

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

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

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