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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the chore boy kill the man that beat him in Harry’s memories from the ranch?

2. Of Harry, the narrator says, “It was not so much that he lied as that” what?

3. Harry tells his companion in the evening as they sit by the fire, “You know the only thing I've never lost is” what?

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

5. Of Harry’s friends, the narrator says, “The people he knew now were all much more comfortable when he did not” what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does the reader learn about Harry from his flashbacks to Paris? What authors are alluded to in this section?

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

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

6. How does Harry’s character differ in the flashbacks from his reality in the present?

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

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

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

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze the relationship between Harry and the woman and the conflicts that engage these characters in the beginning of the story. What are the objectives of Harry and the woman? How do these objectives conflict with one another? Why does Harry demean the woman?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze and discuss the setting of Schrunz and the Madlenerhaus where Harry describes staying during Christmas. During what time period does this flashback take place? How is the setting described? What imagery is used?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and analyze the character of Harry in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro.” How are Harry’s physical traits described? How old is Harry? What are Harry’s main objectives as a character? How does Harry drive the action of the story forward?

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