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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Hôtel de Crillon is located at the foot of what famous street?
(a) The Rue de Passy
(b) The Champs-Élysées
(c) The Rue de Rennes
(d) Boulevard Haussmann

2. As Harry dies in the end of the story, his companion hears what animal stop whimpering and begin to make a strange human sound?
(a) A leopard
(b) A zebra
(c) A vulture
(d) A hyena

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

4. 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) Passion
(c) Admiration
(d) Love

5. The bicycle racer that Harry describes to his dictating companion is said to have won what place in the Paris-Tours?
(a) First place
(b) Second place
(c) Fourth place
(d) Third place

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

7. The narrator refers to Harry’s mistress as the “kindly caretaker and destroyer of” what?
(a) His lust
(b) His ego
(c) His talent
(d) His manhood

8. What word, meaning a wine parlor, does the narrator use when describing the setting of Schrunz in Harry’s flashback?
(a) Vinstube
(b) Vin de Syrah
(c) Vinlonge
(d) Weinstube

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

10. Who argues with the Secretary about whether or not there is snow on the mountains in Harry’s flashback in the beginning of the story?
(a) Hans
(b) Molo
(c) Herr Lent
(d) Nansen

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

12. What river runs through Paris?
(a) The River Elise
(b) The River Thames
(c) The River Seine
(d) The River Esplanade

13. Of Harry’s friends, the narrator says, “The people he knew now were all much more comfortable when he did not” what?
(a) Hunt
(b) Work
(c) Talk
(d) Dally

14. It is noted of Harry’s past, “It was strange, too, wasn't it, that when he fell in love with another woman, that woman should always have more” what “than the last one?”
(a) Intelligence
(b) Beauty
(c) Talent
(d) Money

15. Perticara is a town located in what country?
(a) Belgium
(b) France
(c) Italy
(d) Austria

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. The Dada movement was originated by a group of artists and poets associated with what café?

3. 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”?

4. Harry claims that the man whom they hired to check out the truck didn’t check what?

5. When Harry thinks back to the railway station in Karagatch, he recalls that he was leaving what geographical area after the retreat?

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