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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Vorarlberg is located in what current nation?
(a) Germany
(b) Russia
(c) Poland
(d) Austria

2. The narrator says of Harry in the story, “Now if this was how it ended, and he knew it was, he must not turn like some snake biting itself because” of what reason?
(a) It was cold
(b) It feared itself
(c) It was starving to death
(d) Its back was broken

3. Harry notes to the woman in the beginning of the story that this is the first time the vultures have done what?
(a) Landed on the ground
(b) Flown in circles
(c) Eaten the corpse of an antelope
(d) Called out to other birds

4. How is the chore boy described that was left at the ranch and told not to let anyone get any hay in Harry’s recollections?
(a) Dumb and deaf
(b) A tall buck
(c) A half-wit
(d) A little nerdy squirt

5. Of his female companion, Harry thinks to himself as she returns to camp, “she was not pretty, but he liked her” what?
(a) Lips
(b) Face
(c) Back
(d) Hands

6. In Harry’s flashback to the fighting in Anatolia, the narrator remarks, “That was the day he'd first seen dead men wearing white ballet skirts and upturned shoes with” what on them?
(a) Letters
(b) Pompons
(c) Bullets
(d) Buckles

7. Of Harry and his mistress, the narrator says, “It was not her fault that when he went to her he was” what?
(a) Depressed
(b) Over the hill
(c) Already devoid of talent
(d) Already over

8. In Harry’s flashback to fleeing from a British gunner subaltern with a woman, they spend the night together and the next morning Harry arrives where “with a black eye, carrying his coat because one sleeve was missing”?
(a) His wedding
(b) The Pera Palace
(c) Buckingham Palace
(d) The Officer’s Ball

9. When Harry begins dictating to his companion, he describes a bell on a pole by the door of the log house used to do what?
(a) Warn of a bomb raid
(b) Call the guards to their stations
(c) Call people in to meals
(d) Frighten away bears

10. Harry tells the woman in the beginning of “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” that he watched the way the vultures sailed carefully in case he ever wanted to do what?
(a) Paint them in a picture
(b) Use them in a song
(c) Use them in a story
(d) Use them in a sculpture

11. Who is described in a flashback of Christmas day as having “flown across the lines to bomb the Austrian officers' leave train, machine-gunning them as they scattered and ran”?
(a) Williamson
(b) Barker
(c) Julian
(d) Compton

12. The narrator says that Harry “had chosen to make his living with something else instead of” what?
(a) His mind and heart
(b) A suit and tie
(c) A hammer and nail
(d) A pen or a pencil

13. 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) Peroxide
(c) Alcohol
(d) A bandage

14. 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”?
(a) Poetry
(b) Vitality
(c) Cowardice
(d) Lies

15. The woman that Harry took “away from a British gunner subaltern after a row” in one of his flashbacks is described as being from where?
(a) Armenia
(b) Germany
(c) Argentina
(d) Brazil

Short Answer Questions

1. The Hôtel de Crillon is located at the foot of what famous street?

2. Who is described as having been in the Kaiser Jägers and later went hunting hares with Harry in a flashback in the beginning of the story?

3. In what year was “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” adapted and produced to film, starring Gregory Peck as Harry?

4. Harry tells his companion in the evening as they sit by the fire, “You know the only thing I've never lost is” what?

5. In his first flashbacks of memory, Harry recalls “looking out the window and seeing snow on the mountains in” what country?

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