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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Williamson is described as “a fat man, very brave, and a good officer, although addicted to” what?
(a) Drink and gambling
(b) Fantastic shows
(c) Bad music
(d) Women and sex

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

4. Who argues with the Secretary about whether or not there is snow on the mountains in Harry’s flashback in the beginning of the story?
(a) Hans
(b) Nansen
(c) Herr Lent
(d) Molo

5. How long ago was it that Harry scratched himself, leading ultimately to his current condition?
(a) 1 week ago
(b) 2 days ago
(c) 2 weeks ago
(d) 5 days ago

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

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 Paris
(b) To Amsterdam
(c) To New York
(d) To London

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

9. How would you describe the narrator of “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?
(a) It is related from a first-person, omniscient narrator
(b) It is related from a first-person, limited narrator
(c) It is related from a third-person, omniscient narrator
(d) It is related from a third-person, limited narrator

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

11. 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) Tea
(c) Wine
(d) Scotch and soda

12. 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”?
(a) Williamson
(b) Barker
(c) Julian
(d) Compton

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

14. When Harry begins dictating to his companion, he describes a log house on a hill above the lake and a road that went up to the hills where Harry had picked what?
(a) Blueberries
(b) Huckleberries
(c) Blackberries
(d) Cherries

15. Who is described as Harry’s “femme de ménage” in his descriptions of Paris while dictating to his companion?
(a) Michelle
(b) Sara
(c) Marie
(d) Elise

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

2. What word meaning a cargo truck does Compton use when he arrives at the end of the story?

3. What word from the narrative refers to the act or condition of giving tacit assent, agreement, or consent by silence or without objection?

4. The Rue Cardinal Lemoine is described as running in one direction to the river and in the other direction to the narrow crowded world of what street?

5. What drink does Harry ask the African servant to bring him in the beginning of the story?

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