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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As his companion dictates, Harry describes renting a trout stream after the war and says there were two ways to walk it. One was down the valley from where?
(a) Triberg
(b) Steyr
(c) Enns
(d) Liezen

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

3. When describing his past to his companion who dictates, Harry describes the people of the Place Contrescarpe as being of two kinds: the drunkards and the what?
(a) Argots
(b) Sportifs
(c) Aeronauts
(d) L’envers

4. In one of Harry’s flashbacks, he recalls talking to a member of the Kaiser Jägers above the saw-mill about the attack on Perticara and where?
(a) Paris
(b) Asalone
(c) Naples
(d) Cairo

5. 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) Lombardy poplars
(b) Redwood trees
(c) Douglas firs
(d) Jefferson pines

6. Harry tells the woman that the first thing he did to deserve his fate was not putting what on his wound when he first scratched himself?
(a) Iodine
(b) Alcohol
(c) A bandage
(d) Peroxide

7. How many children did Harry’s female companion have?
(a) 2
(b) 3
(c) 5
(d) 4

8. Who is described as Harry’s “femme de ménage” in his descriptions of Paris while dictating to his companion?
(a) Michelle
(b) Sara
(c) Marie
(d) Elise

9. Who is described as having owned the guns in the log house that Harry describes to his companion as she dictates in the second half of the story?
(a) Harry’s father
(b) Harry’s great-grandfather
(c) Harry’s grandfather
(d) Harry’s uncle

10. Compton watches for holes made by what animals as he prepares to take off in the plane at the end of the story?
(a) Zebras
(b) Warthogs
(c) Hyenas
(d) Boas

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

12. Mount Kilimanjaro is located in what country currently?
(a) Nigeria
(b) Mali
(c) Namibia
(d) Tanzania

13. How long ago was it that Harry scratched himself, leading ultimately to his current condition?
(a) 2 days ago
(b) 2 weeks ago
(c) 1 week ago
(d) 5 days ago

14. For how long was Harry’s group snow-bound in Harry’s flashback to his time at the mountain huts by Schrunz?
(a) 1 week
(b) 2 weeks
(c) 3 weeks
(d) 2 days

15. What term was popularized by Ernest Hemingway and referred to describe the generation that came of age during World War I?
(a) The Silent Generation
(b) The Beat Generation
(c) The Lost Generation
(d) The Absurdist Generation

Short Answer Questions

1. What affliction has Harry contracted in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?

2. How far does Harry recall driving by sled to town with the chore boy and the corpse of the man that beat the chore boy in his memories of the ranch?

3. When was the Hôtel de Crillon opened in Paris?

4. Of Harry’s old life, the narrator says that he had traded it for what when he fell into his relationship with his female companion?

5. In one of Harry’s flashbacks, he recalls talking to a member of the Kaiser Jägers above the saw-mill about the fighting on what mountain?

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