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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What illness did Hemingway contract during a 1933 trip to Africa that he later reflected in his story “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?
(a) Malaria
(b) Dysentery
(c) Tuberculosis
(d) Gangrene

4. In Harry’s flashback to living in the woodcutter’s house, what large porcelain object is described as filling half the room?
(a) A bathtub
(b) A stove
(c) A bed stand
(d) A table

5. When was the Hôtel de Crillon opened in Paris?
(a) 1825
(b) 1909
(c) 1915
(d) 1925

6. In Harry’s flashback to the fighting in Anatolia, the narrator remarks, “That was the day he'd first seen dead men wearing white ballet skirts and upturned shoes with” what on them?
(a) Letters
(b) Pompons
(c) Bullets
(d) Buckles

7. Compton watches for holes made by what animals as he prepares to take off in the plane at the end of the story?
(a) Hyenas
(b) Warthogs
(c) Zebras
(d) Boas

8. 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) Curiosity
(c) Gratitude
(d) Love

9. What word from the narrative refers to the act or condition of giving tacit assent, agreement, or consent by silence or without objection?
(a) Acquiescence
(b) Allusion
(c) Arrogance
(d) Obliqueness

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

11. What café does Harry describe as being filled with “the smell of dirty sweat and poverty and drunkenness” when dictating to his companion?
(a) The Cabaret Voltaire
(b) The Café de Asnieres
(c) The Café des Amateurs
(d) The Café de Courbevoie

12. Of Harry and his mistress, the narrator says, “It was not her fault that when he went to her he was” what?
(a) Depressed
(b) Already over
(c) Already devoid of talent
(d) Over the hill

13. The narrator says of Harry’s female companion that she “loved him dearly as a writer, as a man, as a companion and as” what?
(a) A humble servant
(b) A proud possession
(c) A provider
(d) A husband

14. Of what does Harry’s companion say “That’s the good destruction. That’s the way we’re made to be destroyed”?
(a) In bed
(b) In love
(c) In the press
(d) In warfare

15. Harry tells the woman in the beginning of the story that the vultures appeared the day that what happened?
(a) The day they arrived in Africa
(b) The day they arrived in Egypt
(c) The day they got engaged
(d) The day the truck broke down

Short Answer Questions

1. In what part of his body is Harry afflicted in the story?

2. Many claim that the Dada movement began where?

3. The bicycle racer that Harry describes to his dictating companion is said to have won what place in the Paris-Tours?

4. Harry’s companion tells him that they always stayed at what hotel in St. Germain?

5. Who is described in a flashback of Christmas day as having “flown across the lines to bomb the Austrian officers' leave train, machine-gunning them as they scattered and ran”?

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