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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

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

3. Anatolia is a region of what current country?
(a) Turkey
(b) Poland
(c) Germany
(d) Austria

4. The narrator refers to Harry’s mistress as the “kindly caretaker and destroyer of” what?
(a) His talent
(b) His ego
(c) His manhood
(d) His lust

5. Who does Harry recall as being poor and having been in “romantic awe of him” in his flashbacks to his past?
(a) Hans
(b) Nansen
(c) Julian
(d) Molo

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Harry’s response when his companion says, “That's not fair. I love you now. I'll always love you. Don't you love me?”

2. By what name does Harry refer to his companion’s “people” during their argument in the beginning of the story?

3. As his companion dictates, Harry describes renting a trout stream after the war. Harry says that what individual had a fine fishing season that year?

4. The bicycle racer that Harry describes to his dictating companion is said to have won what place in the Paris-Tours?

5. Harry’s companion tells him early in the story that she wishes they’d gone to what city that Harry loves instead?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the theme of death illustrated in the ending of the story? What is ironic about this depiction?

2. What is the woman’s reasoning for going far from the camp to hunt in the story?

3. When Harry “returns” from his first reverie into his past, what comments does he make to his female companion?

4. What sound awakens the woman after Harry’s death? What does she do?

5. What does Harry ask for when the woman brings him more food after he’s dictated to her? What thoughts consume him here?

6. How does Harry’s female companion say she feels about Africa in the story?

7. What do Harry and his female companion first argue about in the story?

8. What memories do Harry first recall through flashback in the story?

9. What does Harry feel incapable of expressing in words when he dictates to the woman in the story?

10. How is death’s movement personified in the story? What happens to Harry at this time?

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