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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Harry’s flashback to fleeing from a British gunner subaltern with a woman, they get into a taxi and go to what location along the Bosphorus?
(a) Viltas Villari
(b) Rimmily Hissa
(c) Karanfil Sk
(d) Maya Villari

2. Where was Tristan Tzara born?
(a) Romania
(b) Russia
(c) The United States
(d) Germany

3. Harry’s companion says in the beginning of the story, “I said I’d go anywhere you wanted. If you wanted to shoot we could have gone shooting” where?
(a) In Hungary
(b) In Canada
(c) In Wyoming
(d) In Germany

4. Of Harry, the narrator says, “He could beat anything, he thought, because nothing could hurt him if he” what?
(a) Did not care
(b) Was strong
(c) Acted tough enough
(d) Kept a straight face

5. As his companion dictates, Harry describes renting a trout stream after the war and says there were two ways to walk it. One was down the valley from where?
(a) Enns
(b) Steyr
(c) Liezen
(d) Triberg

6. 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) Blackberries
(b) Huckleberries
(c) Blueberries
(d) Cherries

7. The narrator says of Harry in the beginning of the story that “he had no pain and with the pain the horror had gone and all he felt now was a great tiredness and” what?
(a) Anger that this was the end of it
(b) Apathy about going on
(c) Sorrow for all his mistakes
(d) Irritation that he had to wait

8. On what continent is Mount Kilimanjaro located?
(a) South America
(b) Europe
(c) Africa
(d) Asia

9. When Harry first drifts into the flashback of his memories in the story, he sees in his mind a railway station in Karagatch. In what country is Karagatch located?
(a) Germany
(b) Turkey
(c) Spain
(d) Russia

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

11. How did the chore boy kill the man that beat him in Harry’s memories from the ranch?
(a) He shot him
(b) He drowned him
(c) He hung him
(d) He poisoned him

12. The narrator says that Harry “had chosen to make his living with something else instead of” what?
(a) His mind and heart
(b) A pen or a pencil
(c) A hammer and nail
(d) A suit and tie

13. What word, meaning a wine parlor, does the narrator use when describing the setting of Schrunz in Harry’s flashback?
(a) Vinstube
(b) Vin de Syrah
(c) Vinlonge
(d) Weinstube

14. In one flashback, Harry recalls “the man who had the fox to sell when they had walked into” what town?
(a) Bludenz
(b) St. Gallen
(c) Feidkirch
(d) Kappl

15. What is Harry’s mistress’s reply when he says in the beginning of the story, “I don’t want to move. There is no sense in moving now except to make it easier for you”?
(a) That’s cowardly
(b) It doesn’t make it easier for me
(c) I’m leaving
(d) Don’t be obtuse

Short Answer Questions

1. Harry scratched himself where on his body, leading to his current condition?

2. Schwarzwald is a wooded mountain range located in the southwest of what country?

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

4. Harry’s mistress tells him in the beginning of “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” “You can’t die if you don’t” what?

5. The author’s preface to “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” states that Mount Kilimanjaro is how many feet high?

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