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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of his female companion, Harry thinks to himself as she returns to camp, “she was not pretty, but he liked her” what?
(a) Back
(b) Lips
(c) Face
(d) Hands

2. Who is described in a flashback of Christmas day as having “flown across the lines to bomb the Austrian officers' leave train, machine-gunning them as they scattered and ran”?
(a) Julian
(b) Compton
(c) Barker
(d) Williamson

3. 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) Russia
(c) Turkey
(d) Spain

4. The Rue Cardinal Lemoine is described as running in one direction to the river and in the other direction to the narrow crowded world of what street?
(a) The Rue des Ecoles
(b) The Rue Mouffetard
(c) The Rue de Gaillon
(d) The Rue de Rivoli

5. What location does Harry describe to his dictating companion, where “the flower sellers dyed their flowers in the street and the dye ran over the paving where the autobus started”?
(a) Asnieres-sur-Seine
(b) The Place Contrescarpe
(c) Aubervilliers
(d) Montparnasse

6. Harry tells his companion in the evening as they sit by the fire, “You know the only thing I've never lost is” what?
(a) Curiosity
(b) Love
(c) Gratitude
(d) Talent

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

8. 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 Williamson
(d) Herr Julian

9. Tristan Tzara is described in Harry’s Paris flashback as wearing what?
(a) A top hat
(b) A beret
(c) A monocle
(d) A purple suit

10. Many claim that the Dada movement began where?
(a) Milan, Italy
(b) Zurich, Switzerland
(c) Amsterdam, the Netherlands
(d) New York, New York

11. What war was Harry fighting in when he was in Anatolia?
(a) World War I
(b) World War II
(c) The French and Spanish War
(d) The Korean War

12. The bicycle racer that Harry describes to his dictating companion is said to have won what place in the Paris-Tours?
(a) Fourth place
(b) Second place
(c) First place
(d) Third place

13. What kind of hat is Compton described as wearing at the end of the story?
(a) A black top hat
(b) A blue fedora
(c) A grey safari hat
(d) A brown felt hat

14. For how long was Harry’s group snow-bound in Harry’s flashback to his time at the mountain huts by Schrunz?
(a) 2 weeks
(b) 1 week
(c) 3 weeks
(d) 2 days

15. What French word does the narrator use to describe drunkenness in the narrative?
(a) Louchébem
(b) Ivresse
(c) Klezmer-loshn
(d) Verlan

Short Answer Questions

1. The Sette Communi was a group of municipalities in the Veneto region that spoke what language?

2. What word from the story refers to tight-fitting trousers worn primarily for horseback riding?

3. Who does Harry’s companion call for when she awakens at the end of the story?

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

5. Harry’s “femme de ménage” in Paris is described as having said, “It is the wife of the working man who suffers from” what?

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