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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. In Harry’s flashback to living in the woodcutter’s house, he recalls sleeping on mattresses filled with what?
(a) Tobacco leaves
(b) Palm leaves
(c) Juniper leaves
(d) Beech leaves

2. When Harry begins dictating to his companion, he describes a log house, chinked with what on a hill above the lake?
(a) Paint
(b) Coal
(c) Ivy
(d) Mortar

3. What decorative object does Harry describe outside the Boucherie Chevaline when he dictates to his companion in the latter part of the story?
(a) A silver goat’s head
(b) A golden horse’s head
(c) A brass cow’s head
(d) A golden wreath

4. The narrator says of Harry in the second half of the story, “So this was how you died, in whispers that you” what?
(a) Did not remember
(b) Did not consider
(c) Did not hear
(d) Did not make

5. What kind of tree is Harry’s cot described as sitting under in the beginning of the story?
(a) A mimosa tree
(b) A coconut tree
(c) A palm tree
(d) A beech tree

Short Answer Questions

1. What illness did Hemingway contract during a 1933 trip to Africa that he later reflected in his story “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?

2. Harry recalls that Williamson was hit by a stick bomb thrown by someone in what kind of patrol in his flashbacks?

3. Of death, Harry says in the beginning of the story, “The remarkable thing is that it’s” what?

4. 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”?

5. The Dada movement was originated by a group of artists and poets associated with what café?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the woman’s reasoning for going far from the camp to hunt in the story?

2. What does the thorn in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” represent symbolically?

3. In what ways is Harry’s flight seen as a hopeful ending to the story?

4. What sound awakens the woman after Harry’s death? What does she do?

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

6. How is Harry shown to utilize his talents in the narrative?

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

8. How does the narrative style of the story differ between the italicized and non-italicized sections?

9. How are the “real world” and “dream world” differentiated through the narrative style at the ending of the story?

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

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