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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. When Harry’s mistress tells him in the beginning of the story that he’s not going to die, he responds by saying, “Don’t be silly. I’m dying now. Ask those bastards.” What does Harry point to when he says this?
(a) The hyenas
(b) The flies
(c) The mosquitoes
(d) The vultures

2. When Harry begins dictating to his companion, he describes a log house on a hill above the lake. What kind of trees are described as running from the house to the dock?
(a) Jefferson pines
(b) Lombardy poplars
(c) Redwood trees
(d) Douglas firs

3. Of Harry, the narrator says, “It was not so much that he lied as that” what?
(a) There was no truth to tell
(b) He needed her money
(c) He no longer knew the truth
(d) He had nothing else to say

4. When Harry thinks back to the railway station in Karagatch, he recalls that he was leaving what geographical area after the retreat?
(a) Thrace
(b) Scythia
(c) Macedonia
(d) Illyria

5. Anatolia is a region of what current country?
(a) Turkey
(b) Poland
(c) Germany
(d) Austria

Short Answer Questions

1. Harry’s mistress tells him in the beginning of the story that Black’s Medical Dictionary says that what is bad for him in his condition?

2. The narrator refers to Harry’s mistress as the “kindly caretaker and destroyer of” what?

3. What is Harry’s mistress’s reply when he says in the beginning of the story, “I don’t want to move. There is no sense in moving now except to make it easier for you”?

4. Schwarzwald is a wooded mountain range located in the southwest of what country?

5. Where does the narrator say Harry “had been happiest in the good time of his life”?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Harry explain the circumstances that have led him to this fate?

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

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

6. Describe Harry’s memory of the officer named Williamson. What did Harry give Williamson?

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

8. What does Harry think about when he awakens alone after a nap in the story? Where has his companion gone?

9. What imagery is depicted as Harry flies in the plane at the end of the story?

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

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