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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. When was the Hôtel de Crillon opened in Paris?
2. What location does Harry describe to his dictating companion, where “the flower sellers dyed their flowers in the street and the dye ran over the paving where the autobus started”?
3. Harry scratched himself as he and his companion were moving forward to photograph what animals?
4. What composer does Harry say to his companion “wrote the words and music. This knowledge that you’re going mad for me”?
5. What does Harry say was burned out of the truck when arguing with his companion in the beginning of the story?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Harry feel incapable of expressing in words when he dictates to the woman in the story?
2. What is symbolically significant about the woman’s name in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?
3. When Harry “returns” from his first reverie into his past, what comments does he make to his female companion?
4. What is the first setting that Harry describes when dictating to the woman?
5. How does Harry explain the circumstances that have led him to this fate?
6. What does the thorn in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” represent symbolically?
7. How would you describe the relationships between men and women in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?
8. How is death symbolized in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”? What animal in the story’s ending represents death?
9. What elements of Harry’s past show the greatest impact on him as a character?
10. What does the narrator note about Harry’s profession of love to his female companion?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss Hemingway’s use of flashback in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro.” How does Hemingway denote the transitions from the present narrative to the past narrative? How common is this stylistic device in Hemingway’s body of works? How does the narrative of the flashbacks in the story differ from the normal prose?
Essay Topic 2
Describe the setting of Gauertal, and discuss the imagery used by the author in depicting this setting. How does the imagery of the mountains compare with that of Kilimanjaro? How do the narrative descriptions in this section of the text differ from the main narrative’s prose? Why do you think they differ?
Essay Topic 3
What does the leopard in the snow described in the author’s Preface symbolize in the story? Why does the author give this description prior to the opening lines of dialogue? How does the imagery of the leopard tie into the themes of “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?
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