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

2. Of what does the narrator say Harry had sold “in one form or another, all his life and when your affections are not too involved you give much better value for the money”?
(a) Poetry
(b) Cowardice
(c) Vitality
(d) Lies

3. 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) Called out to other birds
(d) Eaten the corpse of an antelope

4. The narrator says of Harry in the second half of the story, “So this was how you died, in whispers that you” what?
(a) Did not remember
(b) Did not hear
(c) Did not make
(d) Did not consider

5. The Sette Communi was a group of municipalities in the Veneto region that spoke what language?
(a) The Frisian language
(b) The Cimbrian language
(c) The Sami language
(d) The Udmurt language

6. 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

7. When dictating to his companion, Harry describes living in an apartment where you could see the wood and coal man’s place. What did the wood and coal man also sell?
(a) Olives
(b) Pigs
(c) Butchered hens
(d) Bad wine

8. 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 was starving to death
(b) It was cold
(c) It feared itself
(d) Its back was broken

9. 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?
(a) A schoolteacher
(b) A hotel proprietor
(c) A butcher
(d) A ski instructor

10. Harry and the woman are waiting for the arrival of what in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?
(a) A rescue ship
(b) A cargo train
(c) An Army vehicle
(d) A rescue plane

11. What word does the narrator use in the beginning of the story to refer to a type of African gazelles?
(a) Ngalis
(b) Egrets
(c) Tommies
(d) Hyenas

12. What kind of plane does Compton arrive in at the end of the story?
(a) A Cessna
(b) An Airbus
(c) A B-52.
(d) A Puss Moth

13. 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) 10 francs
(b) 50 francs
(c) 100 francs
(d) 60 francs

14. What river runs through Paris?
(a) The River Seine
(b) The River Elise
(c) The River Thames
(d) The River Esplanade

15. Of Harry, the narrator says, “He could beat anything, he thought, because nothing could hurt him if he” what?
(a) Did not care
(b) Was strong
(c) Acted tough enough
(d) Kept a straight face

Short Answer Questions

1. The Dada movement was originated by a group of artists and poets associated with what café?

2. The narrator says that Harry planned this safari in the hopes that he could burn what off his soul in “the way a fighter went to the mountains to work and train in order to burn it out of his body”?

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

4. On what continent is Mount Kilimanjaro located?

5. In Harry’s flashback to living in the woodcutter’s house, he recalls sleeping on mattresses filled with what?

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