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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Harry notes to the woman in the beginning of the story that this is the first time the vultures have done what?
(a) Flown in circles
(b) Landed on the ground
(c) Eaten the corpse of an antelope
(d) Called out to other birds

2. For how long was Harry’s group snow-bound in Harry’s flashback to his time at the mountain huts by Schrunz?
(a) 1 week
(b) 3 weeks
(c) 2 weeks
(d) 2 days

3. What does the German word “jäger” translate to in English?
(a) Drink
(b) Priest
(c) Doctor
(d) Hunter

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

5. What does Harry’s mistress repeatedly ask him if he’d like her to do in the beginning of the story?
(a) Sing for him
(b) Call his mother
(c) Bathe him
(d) Read to him

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

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

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

9. Harry scratched himself where on his body, leading to his current condition?
(a) His left elbow
(b) His right knee
(c) His left knee
(d) His right hand

10. 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) Love
(b) Passion
(c) Admiration
(d) Security

11. Harry tells his mistress in the story, “Love is a dunghill. And I’m the” what?
(a) Worms underneath wriggling for freedom
(b) Lucky man who gets to step in it
(c) Cock that gets on it to crow
(d) Mule that eats the hay

12. Who is described as having owned the guns in the log house that Harry describes to his companion as she dictates in the second half of the story?
(a) Harry’s grandfather
(b) Harry’s uncle
(c) Harry’s great-grandfather
(d) Harry’s father

13. By what name does the African servant call Harry?
(a) Moco’o.
(b) Bwana
(c) Mbanza
(d) Tamgu

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

15. 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) Antibiotics
(b) Talking
(c) Laying still
(d) Alcohol

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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?

3. The Dada movement began in approximately what year?

4. How many winters does the narrator say Harry lived in the Arlberg?

5. What drink does Harry ask the African servant to bring him in the beginning of the story?

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