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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As Harry dies in the end of the story, his female companion is dreaming about the house located where?
(a) Long Island
(b) London
(c) New Hampshire
(d) Paris

2. What does Harry recall “them” giving the deserter who arrived with the police right behind him in his flashback to living at the woodcutter’s house?
(a) A thrashing
(b) Wool socks
(c) A blanket
(d) A rifle

3. In Harry’s flashback to fleeing from a British gunner subaltern with a woman, they get into a taxi and go to what location along the Bosphorus?
(a) Karanfil Sk
(b) Maya Villari
(c) Viltas Villari
(d) Rimmily Hissa

4. What comment does Harry make to his companion before saying, “That’s poetry. I’m full of poetry now. Rot and poetry. Rotten poetry”?
(a) A rhyme in time
(b) You rich bitch
(c) A letter’s better
(d) Look at the book

5. 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) Talent
(b) Love
(c) Gratitude
(d) Curiosity

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

7. Where does Harry describe renting a trout stream after the war as his companion dictates?
(a) The White Forest
(b) The Black Forest
(c) The Aspen Forest
(d) The Redwood Forest

8. What composer does Harry say to his companion “wrote the words and music. This knowledge that you’re going mad for me”?
(a) Franz Joseph Haydn
(b) Cole Porter
(c) Stephen Sondheim
(d) Irving Berlin

9. Harry tells the woman that the first thing he did to deserve his fate was not putting what on his wound when he first scratched himself?
(a) A bandage
(b) Iodine
(c) Alcohol
(d) Peroxide

10. When describing his past to his companion who dictates, Harry describes the people of the Place Contrescarpe as being of two kinds: the drunkards and the what?
(a) Sportifs
(b) Aeronauts
(c) L’envers
(d) Argots

11. 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) Fourth place
(c) Second place
(d) Third place

12. When dictating to his companion, Harry describes riding a bike up the only asphalted street in his quarter of Paris which led to a tall hotel where who had died?
(a) Marie LeVeaux
(b) Marie Antoinette
(c) Paul Verlaine
(d) Napoleon Bonaparte

13. 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) Laying still
(c) Alcohol
(d) Talking

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Many claim that the Dada movement began where?

2. 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”?

3. As his companion dictates, Harry describes renting a trout stream after the war. Harry says that what individual had a fine fishing season that year?

4. What location does Harry describe to his dictating companion, where “the flower sellers dyed their flowers in the street and the dye ran over the paving where the autobus started”?

5. Of Harry, the narrator says, “He could beat anything, he thought, because nothing could hurt him if he” what?

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