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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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”?
(a) The Pentagon
(b) The Regence
(c) The Louvre
(d) The Capital

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

3. 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) A little nerdy squirt
(b) A tall buck
(c) A half-wit
(d) Dumb and deaf

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

5. Harry’s mistress is described as having a “well-known, well-loved face from Spur and” what magazine?
(a) The Urban Socialite
(b) Society Weekly
(c) Town and Country
(d) The New Yorker

6. Harry tells his companion in the evening as they sit by the fire, “You know the only thing I've never lost is” what?
(a) Love
(b) Curiosity
(c) Talent
(d) Gratitude

7. Anatolia is a region of what current country?
(a) Germany
(b) Poland
(c) Austria
(d) Turkey

8. By what name does Harry refer to his companion’s “people” during their argument in the beginning of the story?
(a) Your goddamned Old Westbury Saratoga, Palm Beach people
(b) Your godforsaken North Country Irish people
(c) Your ridiculous, idiotic West Monroe, Louisiana people
(d) Your goddamned WASP New England people

9. The author notes in the preface to the story that the frozen carcass of what animal lies close to the western summit of Kilimanjaro?
(a) A hyena
(b) A wildebeest
(c) A lion
(d) A leopard

10. Of death, Harry says in the beginning of the story, “The remarkable thing is that it’s” what?
(a) Chilling
(b) Painless
(c) Frightening
(d) Cold

11. The Dada movement was originated by a group of artists and poets associated with what café?
(a) The Cabaret Voltaire
(b) The White Horse Tavern
(c) The Café Vordergasse
(d) The Café Fribourg

12. Where is Monte Corona located?
(a) Portugal
(b) Austria
(c) Italy
(d) Spain

13. Where does the narrator say Harry “had been happiest in the good time of his life”?
(a) Africa
(b) London
(c) New York
(d) Wyoming

14. Compton tells Harry at the end of the story that he’ll have to stop where to refuel?
(a) Paris
(b) Cairo
(c) Zurich
(d) Arusha

15. What kind of hat is Compton described as wearing at the end of the story?
(a) A blue fedora
(b) A brown felt hat
(c) A grey safari hat
(d) A black top hat

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the word “skischule” translate to in English?

2. Of his female companion, Harry thinks to himself as she returns to camp, “she was not pretty, but he liked her” what?

3. Harry questions in the beginning of the story whether it is sight or what that brings the vultures in?

4. 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”?

5. Harry scratched himself as he and his companion were moving forward to photograph what animals?

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