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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. On what continent is Mount Kilimanjaro located?
2. By what title does the African servant refer to Harry’s female companion in the story?
3. When dictating to his companion, Harry describes riding a bike up the only asphalted street in his quarter of Paris which led to a tall hotel where who had died?
4. Where does Compton appear to be flying Harry to at the end of the story?
5. The Rue Cardinal Lemoine is described as running in one direction to the river and in the other direction to the narrow crowded world of what street?
Short Essay Questions
1. What information is related to the reader in the author’s brief preface prior to the opening of the story?
2. How long has Harry noticed the vultures in the opening of the story? What does he remark about their behavior?
3. What is the woman’s reasoning for going far from the camp to hunt in the story?
4. What does the narrator note about Harry’s profession of love to his female companion?
5. 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?
6. How does Harry’s female companion say she feels about Africa in the story?
7. What is the emotional state of Harry’s companion in the beginning of “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?
8. How does Harry explain the circumstances that have led him to this fate?
9. What happens in the narrative when the text transitions to italics for the first time?
10. When Harry “returns” from his first reverie into his past, what comments does he make to his female companion?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the “Iceberg Theory” or “Theory of Omission” developed by author Ernest Hemingway. How did this technique of writing develop out of Hemingway’s past as a journalist? What is the central point of using the iceberg theory in literature? How is this style illustrated in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
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?
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