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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Harry notes to the woman in the beginning of the story that this is the first time the vultures have done what?
(a) Flown in circles
(b) Landed on the ground
(c) Called out to other birds
(d) Eaten the corpse of an antelope

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

3. 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) Maya Villari
(c) Rimmily Hissa
(d) Karanfil Sk

4. Harry recalls that Williamson was hit by a stick bomb thrown by someone in what kind of patrol in his flashbacks?
(a) A French patrol
(b) A Japanese patrol
(c) A British patrol
(d) A German patrol

5. Of what does Harry’s companion say “That’s the good destruction. That’s the way we’re made to be destroyed”?
(a) In warfare
(b) In the press
(c) In love
(d) In bed

6. Of death, Harry says in the beginning of the story, “The remarkable thing is that it’s” what?
(a) Painless
(b) Frightening
(c) Chilling
(d) Cold

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

8. Harry’s companion tells him when she returns from hunting, “The boys have the wood all ready and the grass to make” what?
(a) The smudge
(b) The hut
(c) The gurney
(d) The beds

9. How many winters does the narrator say Harry lived in the Arlberg?
(a) 2
(b) 4
(c) 10
(d) 3

10. Harry and the woman are waiting for the arrival of what in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?
(a) A rescue ship
(b) A rescue plane
(c) An Army vehicle
(d) A cargo train

11. 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?
(a) A ski instructor
(b) A schoolteacher
(c) A butcher
(d) A hotel proprietor

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

13. How many children did Harry’s female companion have?
(a) 2
(b) 3
(c) 5
(d) 4

14. Harry scratched himself as he and his companion were moving forward to photograph what animals?
(a) Waterbuck
(b) Hyenas
(c) Zebras
(d) Vultures

15. When Harry’s mistress tells him in the beginning of the story that he’s not going to die, he responds by saying, “Don’t be silly. I’m dying now. Ask those bastards.” What does Harry point to when he says this?
(a) The flies
(b) The vultures
(c) The hyenas
(d) The mosquitoes

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Harry’s flashback to fleeing from a British gunner subaltern with a woman, they spend the night together and the next morning Harry arrives where “with a black eye, carrying his coat because one sleeve was missing”?

3. When dictating to his companion, Harry describes living in an apartment where you could see the wood and coal man’s place. What did the wood and coal man also sell?

4. What does the German word “jäger” translate to in English?

5. In Harry’s flashback to living in the woodcutter’s house, he recalls sleeping on mattresses filled with what?

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