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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What drinks do Harry and his companion have after she’s returned from hunting in the evening?
(a) Gin-and-gingers
(b) Whiskey-sodas
(c) Manhattans
(d) Rum-sodas

2. The woman that Harry took “away from a British gunner subaltern after a row” in one of his flashbacks is described as being from where?
(a) Argentina
(b) Brazil
(c) Germany
(d) Armenia

3. 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) 50 francs
(b) 10 francs
(c) 60 francs
(d) 100 francs

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

5. Many claim that the Dada movement began where?
(a) Amsterdam, the Netherlands
(b) Milan, Italy
(c) Zurich, Switzerland
(d) New York, New York

6. What does the word “skischule” translate to in English?
(a) Butcher
(b) Ski school
(c) Hot dog stand
(d) Wine parlor

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

8. When Harry thinks back to the railway station in Karagatch, he recalls that he was leaving what geographical area after the retreat?
(a) Thrace
(b) Macedonia
(c) Illyria
(d) Scythia

9. 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 Regence
(b) The Capital
(c) The Pentagon
(d) The Louvre

10. Harry says that he and his mistress hired whom instead of a good mechanic?
(a) A drunken lorry driver
(b) A half-baked Kikuyu driver
(c) A swindler from Europe
(d) A voodoo goddess

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

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

13. 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?
(a) Asalone
(b) Cairo
(c) Paris
(d) Naples

14. The narrator says of Harry in the story, “Now if this was how it ended, and he knew it was, he must not turn like some snake biting itself because” of what reason?
(a) It feared itself
(b) Its back was broken
(c) It was cold
(d) It was starving to death

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Vorarlberg is located in what current nation?

2. What does Harry regret having done “so much that he blunted the edge of his perceptions”?

3. Harry’s companion says in the beginning of the story, “I said I’d go anywhere you wanted. If you wanted to shoot we could have gone shooting” where?

4. What war was Harry fighting in when he was in Anatolia?

5. The narrator says of Harry in the second half of the story, “So this was how you died, in whispers that you” what?

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