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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Harry’s mistress repeatedly ask him if he’d like her to do in the beginning of the story?
(a) Read to him
(b) Call his mother
(c) Sing for him
(d) Bathe him

3. Compton watches for holes made by what animals as he prepares to take off in the plane at the end of the story?
(a) Warthogs
(b) Zebras
(c) Hyenas
(d) Boas

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

5. When Harry offers Compton breakfast at the end of the story, Compton only accepts what?
(a) Eggs
(b) Tea
(c) Bacon
(d) Coffee

6. What does Harry recall giving Williamson instead of shooting him when Williamson was dying from his injuries?
(a) All his morphine pills
(b) A bottle of whiskey
(c) His own rifle
(d) A love letter from his wife

7. What is the powdered milk brand that Harry’s companion says she’ll have the servants mash potatoes with in the narrative?
(a) Dewberry’s
(b) Klim
(c) Nestle
(d) Atkins

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

9. The narrator says of Harry in the story, “Now if this was how it ended, and he knew it was, he must not turn like some snake biting itself because” of what reason?
(a) It was starving to death
(b) It was cold
(c) Its back was broken
(d) It feared itself

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

11. Who is described in Harry’s flashback as having “lost it all” while playing cards by lantern light during a blizzard at the mountain huts by Schrunz?
(a) Herr Hans
(b) Herr Lent
(c) Herr Julian
(d) Herr Williamson

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

13. The narrator says of Harry’s female companion that she “loved him dearly as a writer, as a man, as a companion and as” what?
(a) A provider
(b) A husband
(c) A proud possession
(d) A humble servant

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

15. When recalling his first, lost love, Harry recalls writing her a letter and sending it where?
(a) To London
(b) To New York
(c) To Boston
(d) To Paris

Short Answer Questions

1. How long ago was it that Harry scratched himself, leading ultimately to his current condition?

2. 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?

3. As Harry dies in the end of the story, his female companion is dreaming about the house located where?

4. The narrator says of Harry in the second half of the story, “So this was how you died, in whispers that you” what?

5. Harry’s mistress tells him in the beginning of the story that Black’s Medical Dictionary says that what is bad for him in his condition?

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