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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. Harry recalls that Williamson was hit by a stick bomb thrown by someone in what kind of patrol in his flashbacks?
2. 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”?
3. The narrator says of Harry in the story, “Now if this was how it ended, and he knew it was, he must not turn like some snake biting itself because” of what reason?
4. When dictating to his companion, Harry describes living in an apartment where you could see the wood and coal man’s place. What did the wood and coal man also sell?
5. One of Harry’s flashbacks describes a trip for Anatolia. On this trip, Harry remembers making an attack with the newly arrived officers from where?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. When Harry “returns” from his first reverie into his past, what comments does he make to his female companion?
3. What is the first setting that Harry describes when dictating to the woman?
4. What do Harry and his female companion first argue about in the story?
5. What is revealed about the central characters of the story based solely on the opening dialogue in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?
6. What memory does Harry first flashback to after awakening from his nap in the story?
7. How is death symbolized in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”? What animal in the story’s ending represents death?
8. What similar conditions does the protagonist of “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” have with the author of the story?
9. What imagery in the story forms its strongest symbolic element?
10. What does Harry ask for when the woman brings him more food after he’s dictated to her? What thoughts consume him here?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe and analyze the character of Harry’s female companion in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro.” How old is “the woman” said to be in the narrative? What is her relationship to Harry? How long have they been involved? What do you think the woman’s objectives are in the narrative?
Essay Topic 2
Describe the symptoms, treatments, and history of gangrene. How common in gangrene today? What treatments would have been available to Harry during the time of the story? How much time would Harry have had to get medical treatment in order to have lived?
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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