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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 father
(b) Harry’s grandfather
(c) Harry’s uncle
(d) Harry’s great-grandfather

2. What does the phrase “Sans Voir” from the story translate to in English?
(a) Without sound
(b) Without love
(c) Without voice
(d) Without seeing

3. By what name does the African servant call Harry?
(a) Moco’o.
(b) Mbanza
(c) Tamgu
(d) Bwana

4. What is the name of a clear, colorless fruit brandy made from morello cherries that is described in the story?
(a) Kirsch
(b) Ginever
(c) Vodka
(d) Schnapps

5. When Harry thinks back to the railway station in Karagatch, he recalls that he was leaving what geographical area after the retreat?
(a) Illyria
(b) Scythia
(c) Thrace
(d) Macedonia

6. What composer does Harry say to his companion “wrote the words and music. This knowledge that you’re going mad for me”?
(a) Stephen Sondheim
(b) Irving Berlin
(c) Cole Porter
(d) Franz Joseph Haydn

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

8. Harry tells the woman that the first thing he did to deserve his fate was not putting what on his wound when he first scratched himself?
(a) Peroxide
(b) Alcohol
(c) A bandage
(d) Iodine

9. What does Harry say was burned out of the truck when arguing with his companion in the beginning of the story?
(a) A belt
(b) A bearing
(c) A piston
(d) A valve

10. Of Harry, the narrator says, “It was not so much that he lied as that” what?
(a) He needed her money
(b) He had nothing else to say
(c) He no longer knew the truth
(d) There was no truth to tell

11. Harry questions in the beginning of the story whether it is sight or what that brings the vultures in?
(a) Sound
(b) Scent
(c) Empathy
(d) Intelligence

12. Of whom does Harry think, “You said that you could write about these people; that you were not really of them but a spy in their country”?
(a) The very noble
(b) The very poor
(c) The very weak-minded
(d) The very rich

13. When Harry begins dictating to his companion, he describes a bell on a pole by the door of the log house used to do what?
(a) Call people in to meals
(b) Frighten away bears
(c) Warn of a bomb raid
(d) Call the guards to their stations

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

15. 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 Courbevoie
(c) The Café des Amateurs
(d) The Café de Asnieres

Short Answer Questions

1. Harry’s mistress is described as having a “well-known, well-loved face from Spur and” what magazine?

2. When Harry awakens in the evening, the African servant tells him that his companion has gone to do what?

3. How are the flashbacks into Harry’s past delineated from the rest of the narrative in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?

4. What is the powdered milk brand that Harry’s companion says she’ll have the servants mash potatoes with in the narrative?

5. When was Black’s Medical Dictionary first published?

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