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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The bicycle racer that Harry describes to his dictating companion is said to have won what place in the Paris-Tours?
(a) Fourth place
(b) First place
(c) Third place
(d) Second place

2. When Harry apologizes and tells his companion that he’s never loved anyone else the way he loved her, the narrator comments, “He slipped into the familiar lie he made” what by?
(a) His novels
(b) His solicitations
(c) His bread and butter
(d) His faithful reverie

3. When Harry begins dictating to his companion, he describes a log house on a hill above the lake. What kind of trees are described as running from the house to the dock?
(a) Redwood trees
(b) Douglas firs
(c) Jefferson pines
(d) Lombardy poplars

4. The Dada movement began in approximately what year?
(a) 1919
(b) 1895
(c) 1942
(d) 1916

5. When was Black’s Medical Dictionary first published?
(a) 1906
(b) 1911
(c) 1885
(d) 1723

6. Harry scratched himself where on his body, leading to his current condition?
(a) His right hand
(b) His left knee
(c) His right knee
(d) His left elbow

7. Schwarzwald is a wooded mountain range located in the southwest of what country?
(a) Romania
(b) Austria
(c) Russia
(d) Germany

8. What affliction has Harry contracted in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?
(a) Gangrene
(b) Malaria
(c) Typhus
(d) Dysentery

9. What is the name of the African servant to Harry and his mistress in the story?
(a) Molo
(b) Bwana
(c) Hans
(d) Nansen

10. In what year was “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” adapted and produced to film, starring Gregory Peck as Harry?
(a) 1936
(b) 1952
(c) 1942
(d) 1948

11. When Harry thinks back to the railway station in Karagatch, he recalls the headlight of what cutting through the dark?
(a) The Royal Scotsman
(b) The Royal Rajasthan
(c) The British Pullman
(d) The Simplon-Orient

12. What happened to the log house that Harry describes to his companion as she dictates in the second half of the story?
(a) It was foreclosed by the bank
(b) It was sold
(c) It burned down
(d) It was flooded in a storm

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

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

15. 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 New York
(c) To London
(d) To Amsterdam

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Harry say was burned out of the truck when arguing with his companion in the beginning of the story?

2. What does Harry recall “them” giving the deserter who arrived with the police right behind him in his flashback to living at the woodcutter’s house?

3. 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”?

4. Who does Harry recall as being poor and having been in “romantic awe of him” in his flashbacks to his past?

5. 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”?

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