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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the Hôtel de Crillon opened in Paris?
(a) 1925
(b) 1915
(c) 1825
(d) 1909

2. When dictating to his companion, Harry describes living and writing in Paris in a top room of a hotel where he paid how much per month?
(a) 60 francs
(b) 50 francs
(c) 10 francs
(d) 100 francs

3. The Dada movement was born out of reaction to what war?
(a) The French and Indian War
(b) The Korean War
(c) World War I
(d) World War II

4. What happened to the log house that Harry describes to his companion as she dictates in the second half of the story?
(a) It was foreclosed by the bank
(b) It was flooded in a storm
(c) It burned down
(d) It was sold

5. 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 butcher
(b) He was a taxi driver
(c) He was a taxidermist
(d) He was a military general

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

7. In his first flashbacks of memory, Harry recalls “looking out the window and seeing snow on the mountains in” what country?
(a) Bulgaria
(b) Switzerland
(c) Peru
(d) The United States

8. What drink does Harry ask the African servant to bring him in the beginning of the story?
(a) Whiskey-soda
(b) Rum and soda
(c) Lemonade
(d) Ginger ale

9. What kind of plane does Compton arrive in at the end of the story?
(a) A B-52.
(b) An Airbus
(c) A Puss Moth
(d) A Cessna

10. What decorative object does Harry describe outside the Boucherie Chevaline when he dictates to his companion in the latter part of the story?
(a) A silver goat’s head
(b) A brass cow’s head
(c) A golden horse’s head
(d) A golden wreath

11. 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?
(a) His faithful reverie
(b) His novels
(c) His bread and butter
(d) His solicitations

12. The Dada movement began in approximately what year?
(a) 1916
(b) 1895
(c) 1919
(d) 1942

13. 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

14. When was Black’s Medical Dictionary first published?
(a) 1723
(b) 1906
(c) 1885
(d) 1911

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Harry tells his mistress in the story, “Love is a dunghill. And I’m the” what?

2. What term was popularized by Ernest Hemingway and referred to describe the generation that came of age during World War I?

3. The author notes in the preface to the story that the frozen carcass of what animal lies close to the western summit of Kilimanjaro?

4. Of what kind of animal does Harry’s companion say, “He’s the one makes the noise at night. I don’t mind it. They’re a filthy animal though”?

5. What is the name of the African servant to Harry and his mistress in the story?

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