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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Harry scratched himself as he and his companion were moving forward to photograph what animals?
(a) Vultures
(b) Waterbuck
(c) Zebras
(d) Hyenas

2. 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) Barker
(b) Williamson
(c) Julian
(d) Compton

3. 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) Second place
(c) First place
(d) Third place

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

5. 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

6. 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?
(a) Security
(b) Admiration
(c) Passion
(d) Love

7. Harry questions in the beginning of the story whether it is sight or what that brings the vultures in?
(a) Empathy
(b) Intelligence
(c) Scent
(d) Sound

8. As Harry dies in the end of the story, his female companion is dreaming about the house located where?
(a) Long Island
(b) New Hampshire
(c) London
(d) Paris

9. What word meaning a cargo truck does Compton use when he arrives at the end of the story?
(a) Viaduct
(b) Vanguard
(c) Catapult
(d) Lorry

10. 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 people in to meals
(c) Call the guards to their stations
(d) Frighten away bears

11. When dictating to his companion, Harry describes riding a bike up the only asphalted street in his quarter of Paris which led to a tall hotel where who had died?
(a) Paul Verlaine
(b) Napoleon Bonaparte
(c) Marie LeVeaux
(d) Marie Antoinette

12. Harry’s “femme de ménage” in Paris is described as having said, “It is the wife of the working man who suffers from” what?
(a) The government’s greed
(b) His lack of education
(c) This shortening of hours
(d) His adulterous affairs

13. 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?
(a) Talking
(b) Alcohol
(c) Laying still
(d) Antibiotics

14. 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) Back
(c) Face
(d) Hands

15. 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 beds
(b) The gurney
(c) The hut
(d) The smudge

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. One of Harry’s mistress’s children was killed how?

3. When Harry thinks back to the railway station in Karagatch, he recalls the headlight of what cutting through the dark?

4. When dictating to his companion, Harry describes living in an apartment where you could see the wood and coal man’s place. What did the wood and coal man also sell?

5. 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?

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