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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Tristan Tzara born?
(a) Romania
(b) Russia
(c) Germany
(d) The United States

2. What is the name of Harry’s female companion in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?
(a) Anna
(b) Sara
(c) Helen
(d) Marie

3. What is Harry’s mistress’s reply when he says in the beginning of the story, “I don’t want to move. There is no sense in moving now except to make it easier for you”?
(a) That’s cowardly
(b) It doesn’t make it easier for me
(c) I’m leaving
(d) Don’t be obtuse

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) Naples
(b) Paris
(c) Cairo
(d) Asalone

5. Harry claims that the man whom they hired to check out the truck didn’t check what?
(a) The tires
(b) The gas
(c) The axle
(d) The oil

6. Where is “that old bastard” from that Harry describes as having beaten the chore boy in Harry’s memories of the ranch?
(a) The Willows
(b) The Forks
(c) The Canyons
(d) The Prairies

7. What is Harry’s response when his companion says, “That's not fair. I love you now. I'll always love you. Don't you love me?”
(a) Yes, I want to marry you, sweetheart
(b) No. I don’t think so. I never have
(c) Yes, of course I love you, dear
(d) Once I loved you. I don’t know anymore

8. 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

9. Of Harry, the narrator says in the beginning of the story, “Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until” when?
(a) He had the inspiration to write them
(b) He had the skills to write them well
(c) He had the intelligence to write them well
(d) He knew enough to write them well

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) Warthogs
(b) Hyenas
(c) Zebras
(d) Boas

11. When recalling his heartbreak over losing his first, lost love, Harry recalls picking up a girl outside of what Parisian restaurant?
(a) Jean George’s
(b) Maxim’s
(c) Valjean’s
(d) The Four Seasons

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

13. In Harry’s flashback to living in the woodcutter’s house, he recalls sleeping on mattresses filled with what?
(a) Palm leaves
(b) Tobacco leaves
(c) Juniper leaves
(d) Beech leaves

14. Of what does Harry’s companion say “That’s the good destruction. That’s the way we’re made to be destroyed”?
(a) In bed
(b) In love
(c) In the press
(d) In warfare

15. What does the word “skischule” translate to in English?
(a) Ski school
(b) Wine parlor
(c) Butcher
(d) Hot dog stand

Short Answer Questions

1. Williamson is described as “a fat man, very brave, and a good officer, although addicted to” what?

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

3. When Harry apologizes and tells his companion that he’s never loved anyone else the way he loved her, the narrator comments, “He slipped into the familiar lie he made” what by?

4. One of Harry’s flashbacks describes a trip for Anatolia. On this trip, Harry remembers making an attack with the newly arrived officers from where?

5. The bicycle racer that Harry describes to his dictating companion is said to have won what place in the Paris-Tours?

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