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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. One of Harry’s mistress’s children was killed how?
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. What happened to the log house that Harry describes to his companion as she dictates in the second half of the story?
4. How are the flashbacks into Harry’s past delineated from the rest of the narrative in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?
5. Harry tells his mistress in the story, “Love is a dunghill. And I’m the” what?
Short Essay Questions
1. How would you characterize the relationship between Harry and his companion? What is their greatest obstacle as a couple?
2. How does Harry’s behavior toward the woman progress as he drinks before falling asleep in the narrative?
3. What does Harry feel incapable of expressing in words when he dictates to the woman in the story?
4. What are the details of the letter Harry recalls sending to New York in the story?
5. How does Harry’s female companion say she feels about Africa in the story?
6. How would you describe the narrator of the story? Is the narrator’s perspective limited or omniscient?
7. What does the reader learn about Harry from his flashbacks to Paris? What authors are alluded to in this section?
8. Discuss Harry’s regrets in the story. How do Harry’s regrets correlate with the presence of death?
9. While his companion is out hunting, Harry considers her character. How does Harry perceive the woman he’s with in this section?
10. What indications does the author give that Harry’s flight with Compton is a dream?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the theme of death as illustrated through Hemingway’s imagery in the beginning of “The Snows of Kilimanjaro.” What creatures in the beginning of the story are associated with death? How? What do these animals symbolize to the central characters in the story?
Essay Topic 2
Analyze the relationship between Harry and the woman and the conflicts that engage these characters in the beginning of the story. What are the objectives of Harry and the woman? How do these objectives conflict with one another? Why does Harry demean the woman?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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