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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What comment does Harry make to his companion before saying, “That’s poetry. I’m full of poetry now. Rot and poetry. Rotten poetry”?
(a) You rich bitch
(b) A rhyme in time
(c) Look at the book
(d) A letter’s better
2. As Harry describes his past for his companion to dictate in the second half of the story, he describes the husband of the woman who ran the Bal Musette as having what occupation?
(a) He was a military general
(b) He was a butcher
(c) He was a taxidermist
(d) He was a taxi driver
3. What affliction has Harry contracted in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?
(a) Dysentery
(b) Gangrene
(c) Typhus
(d) Malaria
4. What kind of hat is Compton described as wearing at the end of the story?
(a) A brown felt hat
(b) A black top hat
(c) A blue fedora
(d) A grey safari hat
5. When recalling his first, lost love, Harry recalls writing to tell her that he thought he saw her outside of what location and “it made him go all faint and sick inside”?
(a) The Louvre
(b) The Pentagon
(c) The Capital
(d) The Regence
6. Harry’s companion says in the beginning of the story, “I said I’d go anywhere you wanted. If you wanted to shoot we could have gone shooting” where?
(a) In Canada
(b) In Wyoming
(c) In Hungary
(d) In Germany
7. Harry’s companion tells him when she returns from hunting, “The boys have the wood all ready and the grass to make” what?
(a) The hut
(b) The beds
(c) The smudge
(d) The gurney
8. 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) Cairo
(b) Paris
(c) Asalone
(d) Naples
9. Where was Tristan Tzara born?
(a) Romania
(b) The United States
(c) Germany
(d) Russia
10. Schwarzwald is a wooded mountain range located in the southwest of what country?
(a) Romania
(b) Germany
(c) Russia
(d) Austria
11. The Dada movement began in approximately what year?
(a) 1895
(b) 1942
(c) 1916
(d) 1919
12. When Harry awakens in the evening, the African servant tells him that his companion has gone to do what?
(a) Bathe
(b) Cook dinner
(c) Hunt
(d) Call for help
13. How long ago was it that Harry scratched himself, leading ultimately to his current condition?
(a) 2 days ago
(b) 1 week ago
(c) 5 days ago
(d) 2 weeks ago
14. The bicycle racer that Harry describes to his dictating companion is said to have won what place in the Paris-Tours?
(a) Fourth place
(b) Third place
(c) Second place
(d) First place
15. Harry’s companion tells him that they always stayed at what hotel in St. Germain?
(a) The Hôtel de Crillon
(b) The Hotel II Salviatino
(c) The Pavillion Henri-Quatre
(d) The Café Royal Hotel
Short Answer Questions
1. Harry’s “femme de ménage” in Paris is described as having said, “It is the wife of the working man who suffers from” what?
2. Harry scratched himself as he and his companion were moving forward to photograph what animals?
3. 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?
4. 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?
5. Of his female companion, Harry thinks to himself as she returns to camp, “she was not pretty, but he liked her” what?
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