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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. How is the chore boy described that was left at the ranch and told not to let anyone get any hay in Harry’s recollections?
(a) A tall buck
(b) A little nerdy squirt
(c) A half-wit
(d) Dumb and deaf

2. When was the Hôtel de Crillon opened in Paris?
(a) 1925
(b) 1825
(c) 1915
(d) 1909

3. 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”?
(a) Vitality
(b) Lies
(c) Cowardice
(d) Poetry

4. What word from the narrative refers to the act or condition of giving tacit assent, agreement, or consent by silence or without objection?
(a) Obliqueness
(b) Arrogance
(c) Acquiescence
(d) Allusion

5. In Harry’s flashback to fleeing from a British gunner subaltern with a woman, they spend the night together and the next morning Harry arrives where “with a black eye, carrying his coat because one sleeve was missing”?
(a) The Officer’s Ball
(b) Buckingham Palace
(c) The Pera Palace
(d) His wedding

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the log house that Harry describes to his companion as she dictates in the second half of the story?

2. When Harry’s mistress says in the beginning of the story, “Please tell me what I can do,” Harry responds that she can take his leg off or do what?

3. The author’s preface to “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” states that Mount Kilimanjaro is how many feet high?

4. The Dada movement was originated by a group of artists and poets associated with what café?

5. Compton tells Harry at the end of the story that he’ll have to stop where to refuel?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What do you think the imagery at the end of the novel (when Harry is on the plane) represents?

3. What do Harry and his female companion first argue about in the story?

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

5. Discuss Harry’s regrets in the story. How do Harry’s regrets correlate with the presence of death?

6. 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?

7. While his companion is out hunting, Harry considers her character. How does Harry perceive the woman he’s with in this section?

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

9. What thoughts does Harry have about his past relationships to the “very rich”? What does this past have to do with Harry’s decision to come to Africa?

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

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