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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Bad wine
(d) Butchered hens

2. What comment does Harry make to his companion before saying, “That’s poetry. I’m full of poetry now. Rot and poetry. Rotten poetry”?
(a) You rich bitch
(b) A rhyme in time
(c) Look at the book
(d) A letter’s better

3. Compton tells Harry at the end of the story that he’ll have to stop where to refuel?
(a) Zurich
(b) Cairo
(c) Arusha
(d) Paris

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

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

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

7. In Harry’s flashback to fleeing from a British gunner subaltern with a woman, they spend the night together and the next morning Harry arrives where “with a black eye, carrying his coat because one sleeve was missing”?
(a) The Pera Palace
(b) Buckingham Palace
(c) The Officer’s Ball
(d) His wedding

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

9. 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 warfare
(d) In the press

10. What does Harry say “makes the time pass” in the beginning of the story?
(a) Singing
(b) Writing
(c) Making love
(d) Quarrelling

11. The Dada movement was born out of reaction to what war?
(a) The Korean War
(b) World War II
(c) The French and Indian War
(d) World War I

12. 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 the guards to their stations
(b) Warn of a bomb raid
(c) Frighten away bears
(d) Call people in to meals

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

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) Blackberries
(c) Cherries
(d) Huckleberries

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is Monte Corona located?

3. What term does the narrator use in describing the police that followed the deserter to the woodcutter’s cabin in Harry’s flashback?

4. As Harry dies in the end of the story, his companion hears what animal stop whimpering and begin to make a strange human sound?

5. Of Harry, the narrator says, “He could beat anything, he thought, because nothing could hurt him if he” what?

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