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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. Who is described in a flashback of Christmas day as having “flown across the lines to bomb the Austrian officers' leave train, machine-gunning them as they scattered and ran”?
(a) Compton
(b) Barker
(c) Julian
(d) Williamson

2. Harry’s companion tells him when she returns with meat that she’s been destroyed how many times before?
(a) Five or six
(b) Two or three
(c) Countless
(d) Three or four

3. Harry tells the woman in the beginning of the story that the vultures appeared the day that what happened?
(a) The day they arrived in Africa
(b) The day the truck broke down
(c) The day they got engaged
(d) The day they arrived in Egypt

4. Harry tells his companion in the evening as they sit by the fire, “You know the only thing I've never lost is” what?
(a) Talent
(b) Curiosity
(c) Gratitude
(d) Love

5. What does Harry say was burned out of the truck when arguing with his companion in the beginning of the story?
(a) A belt
(b) A piston
(c) A bearing
(d) A valve

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says of Harry in the second half of the story, “So this was how you died, in whispers that you” what?

2. In his first flashbacks of memory, Harry recalls “looking out the window and seeing snow on the mountains in” what country?

3. When dictating to his companion, Harry describes living and writing in Paris in a top room of a hotel where he paid how much per month?

4. What drink does Harry ask the African servant to bring him in the beginning of the story?

5. When Harry thinks back to the railway station in Karagatch, he recalls the headlight of what cutting through the dark?

Short Essay Questions

1. What memory does Harry first flashback to after awakening from his nap in the story?

2. How does Harry’s behavior toward the woman progress as he drinks before falling asleep in the narrative?

3. What memories do Harry first recall through flashback in the story?

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

5. What is the first setting that Harry describes when dictating to the woman?

6. What food does the woman bring to Harry after his nap? How does Harry feel about eating it?

7. What similar conditions does the protagonist of “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” have with the author of the story?

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

9. How is the theme of death illustrated in the ending of the story? What is ironic about this depiction?

10. How does Harry’s female companion say she feels about Africa in the story?

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