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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Harry’s companion call for when she awakens at the end of the story?
(a) Molo
(b) Lent
(c) Nansen
(d) Hans

2. Of Harry’s companion, the narrator says, “She loved anything that was exciting, that involved a change of scene, where there were new people and where things were” what?
(a) Interesting
(b) Pleasant
(c) A struggle
(d) Complicated

3. When Harry apologizes and tells his companion that he’s never loved anyone else the way he loved her, the narrator comments, “He slipped into the familiar lie he made” what by?
(a) His bread and butter
(b) His faithful reverie
(c) His novels
(d) His solicitations

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

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

6. When dictating to his companion, Harry describes riding a bike up the only asphalted street in his quarter of Paris which led to a tall hotel where who had died?
(a) Marie Antoinette
(b) Paul Verlaine
(c) Marie LeVeaux
(d) Napoleon Bonaparte

7. 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 Café de Courbevoie
(b) The Café de Asnieres
(c) The Café des Amateurs
(d) The Cabaret Voltaire

8. How would you describe the narrator of “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?
(a) It is related from a third-person, limited narrator
(b) It is related from a third-person, omniscient narrator
(c) It is related from a first-person, omniscient narrator
(d) It is related from a first-person, limited narrator

9. Of Harry, the narrator says in the beginning of the story, “Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until” when?
(a) He had the skills to write them well
(b) He knew enough to write them well
(c) He had the intelligence to write them well
(d) He had the inspiration to write them

10. Harry says that he and his mistress hired whom instead of a good mechanic?
(a) A swindler from Europe
(b) A drunken lorry driver
(c) A half-baked Kikuyu driver
(d) A voodoo goddess

11. Perticara is a town located in what country?
(a) Italy
(b) France
(c) Austria
(d) Belgium

12. The author notes in the preface to the story that the frozen carcass of what animal lies close to the western summit of Kilimanjaro?
(a) A wildebeest
(b) A lion
(c) A leopard
(d) A hyena

13. What word from the narrative refers to the act or condition of giving tacit assent, agreement, or consent by silence or without objection?
(a) Allusion
(b) Acquiescence
(c) Arrogance
(d) Obliqueness

14. Williamson is described as “a fat man, very brave, and a good officer, although addicted to” what?
(a) Women and sex
(b) Fantastic shows
(c) Drink and gambling
(d) Bad music

15. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does the narrator say Harry had sold “in one form or another, all his life and when your affections are not too involved you give much better value for the money”?

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

3. The narrator says that Harry planned this safari in the hopes that he could burn what off his soul in “the way a fighter went to the mountains to work and train in order to burn it out of his body”?

4. Harry’s companion tells him when she returns with meat that she’s been destroyed how many times before?

5. 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?

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