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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Harry recalls that Williamson was hit by a stick bomb thrown by someone in what kind of patrol in his flashbacks?
(a) A Japanese patrol
(b) A French patrol
(c) A German patrol
(d) A British patrol

2. The narrator says of Harry’s female companion that she liked to read in the evening before dinner and she drank what while she read?
(a) Rum and soda
(b) Scotch and soda
(c) Tea
(d) Wine

3. Harry’s mistress tells him in the beginning of “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” “You can’t die if you don’t” what?
(a) Try to
(b) Want to
(c) Give up
(d) Fight

4. On what continent is Mount Kilimanjaro located?
(a) Europe
(b) Asia
(c) South America
(d) Africa

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

6. Where is “that old bastard” from that Harry describes as having beaten the chore boy in Harry’s memories of the ranch?
(a) The Prairies
(b) The Canyons
(c) The Forks
(d) The Willows

7. Harry’s companion tells him early in the story that she wishes they’d gone to what city that Harry loves instead?
(a) To London
(b) To Amsterdam
(c) To Paris
(d) To New York

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

9. The narrator says of Harry in the beginning of the story that “he had no pain and with the pain the horror had gone and all he felt now was a great tiredness and” what?
(a) Anger that this was the end of it
(b) Sorrow for all his mistakes
(c) Apathy about going on
(d) Irritation that he had to wait

10. When Harry offers Compton breakfast at the end of the story, Compton only accepts what?
(a) Tea
(b) Eggs
(c) Bacon
(d) Coffee

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

12. One of Harry’s flashbacks describes a trip for Anatolia. On this trip, Harry remembers riding all day through fields of what kinds of flowers?
(a) Honeysuckle
(b) Roses
(c) Pansies
(d) Poppies

13. What is Harry’s response when his companion says, “That's not fair. I love you now. I'll always love you. Don't you love me?”
(a) No. I don’t think so. I never have
(b) Once I loved you. I don’t know anymore
(c) Yes, of course I love you, dear
(d) Yes, I want to marry you, sweetheart

14. 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) Viltas Villari
(b) Rimmily Hissa
(c) Maya Villari
(d) Karanfil Sk

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

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 fighting on what mountain?

2. Of Harry, the narrator says in the beginning of the story, “Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until” when?

3. As Harry dies in the end of the story, his female companion is dreaming about the house located where?

4. Williamson is described as “a fat man, very brave, and a good officer, although addicted to” what?

5. When Harry begins dictating to his companion, he describes a log house, chinked with what on a hill above the lake?

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