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Choose the right preposition: .. He also ran errands ___ the ward, and in his spare time made a cigarette-lighter out of an empty Austrian rifle-cartridge

Choose the right preposition: ... I read the Corriere della Sera and the English and American papers from Paris. All the advertisements were blacked out, supposedly to prevent communication ___ that way with the enemy

Choose the right preposition: A soldier sat outside the door that opened on to the garden making crosses and painting on them the names, rank, and regiment of the men who were buried ___ the garden

Choose the right preposition: But I knew ___ the papers that they were still fighting in the mountains because the snow would not come

Choose the right preposition: But we did not stay up very late. We went to bed ___ the dark in the big bedroom

Choose the right preposition: He had been a head-waiter and she had worked as maid ___ the same hotel and they had saved their money to buy this place

Choose the right preposition: He was not allowed to make an explanation. He cried when they read the sentence ___ the pad of paper and cried while they led him off, and they were questioning another when they shot him

Choose the right preposition: I did not watch them shoot him but I heard the shots. They were questioning someone else. This officer too was separated ___ his troops

Choose the right preposition: I held on ___ the timber with both hands and let it take me along. The shore was out of sight now

Choose the right preposition: I sat ___ the little booth and watched

Choose the right preposition: I sat in the corner with a heavy mug of dark beer and an opened glazed-paper package of pretzels and ate the pretzels ___ the salty flavour and the good way they made the beer taste and read about disaster

Choose the right preposition: I thought Catherine would come but she did not come, so I hung the papers back on the rack, paid ___ my beer and went up the street to look for her

Choose the right preposition: I was obviously a German ___ Italian uniform. I saw how their minds worked; if they had minds and if they worked. They were all young men and they were saving their country. The second army was being re-formed beyond the Tagliamento

Choose the right preposition: If anyone were going to die they put a screen around the bed so you could not see them die, but only the shoes and puttees of doctors and men nurses showed under the bottom of the screen and sometimes ___ the end there would be whispering

Choose the right preposition: If you lay ___ your left side you could see the dressing-room door. There was another door at the far end that people sometimes came in by

Choose the right preposition: In front of the house where we lived the mountain went down steeply to the little plain along the lake and we sat on the porch of the house ___ the sun and saw the winding of the road down the mountain-side and the terraced vineyards on the side of the lower mountain, the vines all dead now for the winter and the fields divided by stone walls, and below the vineyards the houses of the town on the narrow plain along the lake shore

Choose the right preposition: In front of the house where we lived the mountain went down steeply to the little plain along the lake and we sat on the porch of the house in the sun and saw the winding of the road down the mountain-side and the terraced vineyards ___ the side of the lower mountain, the vines all dead now for the winter and the fields divided by stone walls, and below the vineyards the houses of the town on the narrow plain along the lake shore

Choose the right preposition: In the town we walked along the main street and looked in the windows ___ the shops

Choose the right preposition: It was exciting to watch and Catherine smiled and talked ___ me and my voice was a little thick from being excited

Choose the right preposition: Mr. and Mrs. Guttingen lived downstairs and we would hear them talking sometimes ___ the evening and they were very happy together too

Choose the right preposition: Mrs. Guttingen came into the room early ___ the morning to shut the windows and started a fire in the tall porcelain stove

Choose the right preposition: My leg ached and I was tired but we made good time. It seemed so silly ___ Bonello to have decided to be taken prisoner

Choose the right preposition: Out on the lake there were flocks of grebes, small and dark, and leaving trails ___ the water when they swam

Choose the right preposition: Outside, ___ front of the chalet a road went up the mountain

Choose the right preposition: Sometimes we walked down the mountains into Montreux. There was a path went down the mountain but it was steep and so usually we took the road and walked down on the wide hard road between fields and then below between the stone walls of the vineyards and on down ___ the houses of the villages along the way

Choose the right preposition: Sometimes we went off the road and ___ a path through the pine forest. The floor of the forest was soft to walk on; the frost did not harden it as it did the road

Choose the right preposition: That morning the major in charge ___ the ward asked me if I felt that I could travel the next day. I said I could. He said that they would ship me out early in the morning. He said I would be better off making the trip now before it got too hot

Choose the right preposition: That was a very strange night. I do not know what I had expected-death perhaps, and shooting ___ the dark, and running, but nothing happened

Choose the right preposition: The day was cold and dark and wintry and the stone ___ the houses looked cold. Catherine was still in the hairdresser’s shop

Choose the right preposition: The mountains were sharp and steep on the other side of the lake and down at the end of the lake was the plain of the Rhone Valley flat ___ the two ranges of mountains; and up the valley where the mountains cut it off was the Dent du Midi

Choose the right preposition: The pine wood crackled and sparkled and then the fire roared in the stove and the second time Mrs. Guttingen came into the room she brought big chunks ___ wood for the fire and a pitcher of hot water

Choose the right preposition: The road went down a long grade below the chвteau and then turned to the right and went down very steeply and paved ___ cobbles, into Montreux

Choose the right preposition: The room was long with windows on the right-hand side and a door at the far end that went ___ the dressing-room

Choose the right preposition: The row ___ beds that mine was in faced the windows and another row, under the windows, faced the wall

Choose the right preposition: The tongs made a pleasant clicking sound and I could see Catherine in three mirrors and it was pleasant and warm ___ the booth

Choose the right preposition: The valley was deep and there was a stream at the bottom that flowed down ___ the lake and when the wind blew across the valley you could hear the stream in the rocks

Choose the right preposition: The war seemed as far away as the football games ___ some one else’s college

Choose the right preposition: Then along the road we passed an old square-built stone chвteau on a ledge on the side of the mountain-side with the terraced fields of vines, each vine tied to a stick to hold it up, the vines dry and brown and the earth ready ___ the snow and the lake down below flat and grey as steel

Choose the right preposition: Then the priest would come out ___ behind the screen and afterward the men nurses would go back behind the screen to come out again carrying the one who was dead with a blanket over him down the corridor between the beds and someone folded the screen and took it away

Choose the right preposition: Then the woman put up Catherine’s hair, and Catherine looked ___ the mirror and changed it a little, taking out and putting in pins; then stood up. “I’m sorry to have taken such a long time.”

Choose the right preposition: There was a box of wood ___ the hall outside the living-room and I kept up the fire from it

Choose the right preposition: There was an island with two trees on the lake and the trees looked like the double sails ___ the fishing-boat

Choose the right preposition: There was much wood ___ the stream. The water was very cold. We passed the brush of an island above the water

Choose the right preposition: There was no danger. We had walked through two armies ___ incident

Choose the right preposition: There were many big hotels that were closed but most ___ the shops were open and the people were very glad to see us

Choose the right preposition: There were shots when I ran and shots when I came up the first time. I heard them when I was almost above water. There were no shots now. The piece of timber swung in the current and I held it with one hand. I looked ___ the bank. It seemed to be going by very fast.

Choose the right preposition: There were two comfortable chairs and a table for books and magazines and we played cards ___ the dining-table when it was cleared away

Choose the right preposition: They had a son who was studying to be a head-waiter. He was at the hotel in Zurich. Downstairs there was a parlour where they sold wine and beer, and sometimes in the evening we would hear carts stop outside ___ the road and men come up the steps to go in the parlour to drink wine

Choose the right preposition: They made a point of being intent ___ questioning the next man while the man who had been questioned before was being shot. In this way there was obviously nothing they could do about it. I did not know whether I should wait to be questioned or make a break now

Choose the right preposition: They wanted to get us all out and back as far as possible because all the beds were needed ___ the offensive, when it should start

Choose the right preposition: They were anxious to ship me ___ Milan, where there were better X-ray facilities and where, after the operation, I could take mechanico-therapy. I wanted to go to Milan too

Choose the right preposition: They were executing officers of the rank of major and above who were separated ___ their troops. They were also dealing summarily with German agitators in Italian uniform. They wore steel helmets. Only two of us had steel helmets

Choose the right preposition: Two carabinieri took the lieutenant-colonel to the river bank. He walked in the rain, an old man with his hat off, a carabinieri ___ either side

Choose the right preposition: We bought books and magazines in the town and a copy ___ “Hoyle” and learned many two-handed card games. The small room with the stove was our living-room

Choose the right preposition: We did not know anyone ___ Montreux

Choose the right preposition: We lived in a brown wooden house in the pine trees ___ the side of the mountain and at night there was frost so that there was thin ice over the water in the two pitchers on the dresser in the morning

Choose the right preposition: We slept well and if I woke ___ the night I knew it was from only one cause and I would shift the feather bed over, very softly so that Catherine would not be wakened, and then go back to sleep again, warm and with the new lightness of thin covers

Choose the right preposition: We waited, lying flat beyond the ditch along the main road while a German battalion passed, then when they were gone we crossed the road and went ___ to the north

Choose the right preposition: We walked along beside the lake and saw the swans and the many gulls and terns that flew up when you came close and screamed while they looked down ___ the water

Choose the right preposition: We were very close to Germans twice ___ the rain but they did not see us. We got past the town to the north without seeing any Italians, then after a while came on the main channels of the retreat and walked all night toward the Tagliamento

Choose the right preposition: When I was undressed I opened the window and saw the night and the cold stars and the pine-trees below the window and then got into bed as far as I could. It was lovely ___ bed with the air so cold and clear and the night outside the window

Choose the right preposition: When the sun was bright we ate lunch ___ the porch but the rest of the time we ate upstairs in a small room with plain wooden walls and a big stove in the corner

Choose the right preposition: When they lifted you up out of bed to carry you into the dressing-room you could look out of the window and see the new graves ___ the garden

Choose the right preposition: While Catherine was there I went up ___ a beer place and drank dark Munich beer and read the papers

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Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: . In the bed of the river there were pebbles and boulders, dry and white in the ___ and the water was clear and swiftly moving and blue in the channels

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: . The others were shouting. “There’s good ___ . You would like the people and though it is cold it is clear and dry. You could stay with my family. My father is a famous hunter.”

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: . Troops went by the house and down the ___ and the dust they raised powdered the leaves of the trees

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: At the start of the winter came the permanent rain and with the rain came the cholera. But it was checked and in the end only ___ thousand died of it in the army

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He lived in ___ and came out in this way nearly every day to see how things were going, and things went very badly

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the ___ and the plain to the mountains

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: It came very fast and the sun went a dull yellow and then everything was grey and the sky was covered and the ___ came on down the mountain and suddenly we were in it and it was snow

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Later, below in the town, I watched the snow falling, looking out of the window of the bawdy – house, the house of officers, where I sat with a friend and two glasses drinking a bottle of Asti, and, looking out at the snow falling slowly and heavily, we knew it was all over for that ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: My friend saw the priest from our mess going by in the street, walking carefully in the slush, and pounded on the window to attract his ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Now the fighting was in the next mountains beyond and was not a mile away. The ___ was very nice and our house was very fine

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: People lived on it and there were ___ up side streets and two bawdy-houses, one for troops and one for officers

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Sometimes in the dark we heard the troops marching under the window and guns going past pulled by motor-….

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: That night in the mess after the spaghetti course, which every one ate very quickly and seriously, lifting the spaghetti on the ___ until the loose strands hung clear then lowering it into the mouth

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The ___ that was beyond the valley and the hillside where the chestnut forest grew was captured and there were victories beyond the plain on the plateau to the south

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The captain spoke pidgin Italian for my doubtful benefit, in order that I might understand perfectly, that nothing should be ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The forest had been green in the summer when we had come into the town but now there were the stumps and the broken trunks and the ground torn up, and one day at the end of the fall when I was out where the oak forest had been I saw a ___ coming over the mountain

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The forest of oak trees on the mountain beyond the ___ was gone

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The next year there were many ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The plain was rich with crops; there were many orchards of fruit trees and beyond the plain the mountains were brown and ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The priest looked up. He saw us and ___ . My friend motioned for him to come in

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The priest shook his ___ and went on., or else using a continuous lift and sucking it into the mouth, helping ourselves to wine from the grass-covered gallon flask

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The priest was young and blushed easily and wore a uniform like the ___ of us but with a cross in dark red velvet above the left breast-pocket of his gray tunic

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The river ran behind us and the town had been captured very handsomely but the mountains beyond it could not be taken and I was very glad the ___ seemed to want to come back to the town some time, if the war should end, because they did not bombard it to destroy it but only a little in a military way

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The snow slanted across the ___ , the bare ground was covered, the stumps of trees projected, there was snow on the guns and there were paths in the snow going back to the latrines behind trenches

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The trunks of the ___ too were dusty and the leaves fell early that year and we saw the troops marching along the road and the dust rising and leaves, stirred by the breeze, falling and the soldiers marching and afterwards the road bare and white except for the leaves

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The vineyards were thin and bare-branched too and all the country wet and ___ and dead with the autumn

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: There was fighting for that mountain too, but it was not successful, and in the fall when the rains came the leaves all fell from the chestnut trees and the branches were bare and the trunks black with ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: There was fighting in the ___ and at night we could see the flashes from the artillery

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: There was much traffic at night and many mules on the roads with ___ of ammunition on each side of their pack-saddles and grey motor-trucks that carried men, and other trucks with loads covered with canvas that moved slower in the traffic

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: There were big guns too that passed in the day drawn by tractors, the long barrels of the ___ covered with green branches and green leafy branches and vines laid over the tractors

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: There were mists over the river and clouds on the mountain and the trucks splashed mud on the road and the troops were muddy and wet in the capes; their rifles were wet and under their capes the two leather cartridge-boxes on the front of the belts, grey leather boxes heavy with the packs of clips of thin, long 6.5mm. cartridge, bulged forward under the capes so that the men, passing on the road, marched as though they were six months gone with ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: There were small grey motor-cars that passed going very fast; usually there was an officer on the seat with the driver and more officers in the back ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: They splashed more ___ than the camions even and if one of the officers in the back was very small and sitting between two generals, he himself so small that you could not see his face but only the top of his cap and his narrow back, and if the car went especially fast it was probably the King

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: To the north we could look across a valley and see a forest of chestnut trees and behind it another mountain on this side of the ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Up the river the mountains had not been taken; none of the mountains beyond the river had been taken. That was all left for ___ year

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: “ The Pope wants the Austrians to win the war,” the major said. “ He loves Franz Joseph. That’s where the money comes from. I am an ___ .”

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: “Did you ever read the «Black ___ »?” asked the lieutenant. “I will get you a copy. It was that which shook my faith.”

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: “He should visit Amalfi,” said the lieutenant. “I will write you cards to my family in Amalfi. They will love you like a ___ .”

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: “I believe in the Freemasons,” the lieutenant said. “It is a noble organization.” Someone came in and as the door opened I could see the snow ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: “I would like you to ___ to Abruzzi,” the priest said

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: “It is a filthy and vile ___ ,” said the priest. “You do not really like it.”

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: “It is very valuable,” said the lieutenant. “It tells you about those priests. You’ll will like it,” he said to me. I smiled at the priest and he smiled back across the ___ -light. “Don’t you read it,” he said

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: “No,” said the priest. The other officers were ___ at the baiting

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: “Not true?” asked the captain. “Today I ___ priest with girls.”

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: “Priest every night ___ against one.” Every one at the table laughed

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: “Priest not with girls,” went on the captain. “Priest never with girls,” he explained to me. He took my glass and filled it, looking at my eyes all the time, but not loosing ___ of the priest

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: “Priest today with girls,” the captain said looking at the priest and at me. The priest smiled and blushed and shook his head. The captain ___ him often

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: “You understand? Priest every night five against ___ .” He made a gesture and laughed loudly. The priest accepted it as a joke

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Anything can ___ in a gas-mask. I’ve vomited into a gas-mask. Don’t be so loud, baby, Rinaldi said. We all know you have been at the front. Oh, you fine baby, what will I do while you are gone? We must go, said the major

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He also ran errands for the ward, and in his ___ time made a cigarette-lighter out of an empty Austrian rifle-cartridge. The doctors were very nice and seemed very capable

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: If you lay on your left side you could see the dressing-room door. There was another door at the far end that people sometimes came in by. If anyone were going to die they put a screen around the bed so you could not see them die, but only the ___ and puttees of doctors and men nurses showed under the bottom of the screen and sometimes at the end there would be whispering

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Maybe you will, I said. We must go, said the major. We drink and make noise and ___ Federico. Don’t go. Yes, we must go. Good-bye. Good luck. Many things. Ciaou. Ciaou. Ciaou. Come back quickly, baby

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Some American ambulance units were to be sent down, and this hospital would ___ them and any other Americans on service in Italy. There were many in the Red Cross. The states had declared war on Germany, but not on Austria

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: That morning the major in charge of the ward asked me if I felt that I could travel the next day. I said I could. He said that they would ship me out early in the morning. He said I would be better off making the ___ now before it got too hot

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The Italians were sure America would declare war on Austria too, and they were very ___ about any Americans coming down, even the Red Cross

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The next day in the morning we left for Milan and arrived forty-eight hours later. It was a bad trip. We were side-tracked for a long time this side of Mestre and children came and peeked in. I got a little boy to go for a bottle of cognac, but he came back and said he could only get grappa. I told him to get it, and when it came I gave him the ___ , and the man beside me and I got drunk and slept until past Vicenza, where I woke up and was very sick on the floor

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The night before I left the field hospital Rinaldi came in to see me with the major from our mess. They said that I would go to the American hospital in Milan that had just been ___

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The room was long with windows on the right-hand side and a door at the far ___ that went into the dressing-room. The row of beds that mine was in faced the windows and another row, under the windows, faced the wall

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The tickets are very ___ . I will draw a sight draft on my grandfather, I said. A what? A sight draft. He has to pay or I go to jail. Mr. Cunningham at the bank does it. I live by sight drafts. Can a grandfather jail a patriotic grandson who is dying that Italy may live? Live the American Garibaldi, said Rinaldi. Evviva the sight drafts, I said

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Then the priest would come out from behind the screen and afterward the men nurses would go back behind the screen to come out again carrying the one who was dead with a ___ over him down the corridor between the beds and someone folded the screen and took it away

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: They asked me if I thought President Wilson would declare war on Austria, and I said it was only a ___ of days. I did not know what we had against Austria, but it seemed logical that they should declare war on her if they did on Germany

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: They asked me if we would declare war on Turkey. I said that was ___ . Turkey, I said, was our national bird, but the joke translated so badly and they were so puzzled and suspicious that I said yes, we would probably declare war on Turkey

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: They had not got nurses yet from America. I ___ today with the head of their riparto. They have too many women here at the front. They send some back. How do you like that, baby? All right

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: They were anxious to ship me to Milan, where there were better X-ray facilities and where, after the operation, I could take mechanico-therapy. I wanted to go to Milan too. They wanted to get us all out and back as far as possible because all the beds were needed for the ___ , when it should start

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: This becomes ___ . Listen, I have a surprise for you. Your English. You know? The English you go to see every night at their hospital? She is going to Milan too. She goes with another to be at the American hospital

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: We must be quiet, said the major. Already we have been asked many times to be quiet. Do you go tomorrow really, Federico? He goes to the American hospital, I tell you, Rinaldi said. To the beautiful nurses. Not the nurses with ___ of the field hospital

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: When they lifted you up out of bed to carry you into the dressing-room you could look out of the window and see the new graves in the garden. A soldier sat outside the door that opened on to the garden making crosses and painting on them the names, rank, and regiment of the men who were buried in the ___

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Yes, yes, said the major, I know he goes to the American hospital. I don’t mind their beards, I said. If any man wants to ___ a beard, let him. Why don’t you raise a beard, Signor Maggiore? It could not go in a gas-mask. Yes it could

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel The fields were green and there were small green ___ on the vines, the trees along the road had small leaves and a breeze came from the sea:

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: At the foot of the bed was my flat trunk, and my winter ___ , the leather shiny with oil, were on the trunk

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: But if you have had it you know. He had not had it but he understood that I had really wanted to go to the Abruzzi but had not gone and we were still friends, with many ___ alike, but with the difference between us

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He did not see me and I did not know ___ to go in and report or go upstairs first and clean up. I decided to go on upstairs

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget. But I did not know that then, ___ I learned it later

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He stood there small, brown-faced, and ___ . He was pleased and undid them. I held the mosquito netting in my hands

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: I could read the ___ by turning it so the half-light from the window was on it. It was The News of the World

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: I had drunk much wine and afterwards coffee and Strega and I ___ , winefully, how we did not do the things we wanted to do; we never did such things

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: I had gone to no such place but to the smoke nights when the room whirled and you needed to look at the wall to make it stop, nights in bed, drunk, when you knew that that was all there was, and the strange excitement of waking and not knowing who it was with you, and the world all unreal in the dark and so exciting that you must resume again ___ and not caring in the night, sure that this was all and all and all and not caring

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: I myself felt as badly as he did and could not understand why I had not gone. It was what I had wanted to do and I tried to explain how one thing had ___ another and finally he saw it and understood that I had really wanted to go and it was almost all righ

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: I tried to tell about the night and the difference between the night and the day and how the night was better unless the day was very ___ and cold and I could not tell it; as I cannot tell it now

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: In the meantime we were all at the mess, the meal was ___ , and the argument went on. We two stopped talking and the captain shouted, “Priest not happy. Priest not happy without girls.”

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: In the town there were more ___ , there were some new hospitals, you met British men and sometimes women, on the street, and a few more houses had been hit by shell-fire

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: It was all as I had left it except that now it was spring. I looked in the door of the big room and saw the major sitting at his desk, the window open and the ___ coming into the room

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: It was dusk when the priest came. They had brought the soup and afterward taken away the bowls and I was lying looking at the rows of beds and out the window at the tree-top that moved a little in the evening

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: It was like being put to bed after early supper. The orderly came down between the beds and stopped. Someone was ___ him. It was the priest

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: It was warm and like the spring and I walked down the alleyway of trees, warmed from the sun on the wall, and found we still lived in the same ___ and that it all looked the same as when I had left it

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: My Austrian sniper’s ___ with its blued octagon barrel and the lovely dark walnut, cheek-fitted, scutzen stock, hung over the two beds

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Sometimes still pleasant and ___ and warm and breakfast and lunch. Sometimes all niceness gone and glad to get out on the street but always another day starting and then another night.

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Suddenly to care very much and to sleep to wake with it sometimes morning and all that had been there gone and everything sharp and ___ and clear and sometimes a dispute about the cost

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: That night at the mess I sat ___ the priest and he was disappointed and suddenly hurt that I had not gone to the Abruzzi. He had written to his father that I was coming and they had made preparations

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The breeze came in through the window and it was cooler with the evening. The ___ were on the ceiling now and on the electric light bulbs that hung on wires

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The door was open, there was a soldier sitting on a bench outside in the sun, an ambulance was waiting ___ the side door and inside the door, as I went in, there was a smell of marble floors and hospitals

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The lights were only ___ on when someone was brought in at night or when something was being done. It made me feel very young to have the dark come after the dusk and then remain

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The room I ___ with the lieutenant Rinaldi looked out on the courtyard. The window was open, my bed was made up with blankets and my things hung on the wall, the gas-mask in an oblong tin can, the steel helmet on the same peg

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The telescope that fitted it was, I remembered, locked in the trunk. The lieutenant, Rinaldi, lay asleep on the other bed. He woke when he ___ me in the room and sat up

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The vermouth he held up for me to see and then put it on the floor beside the bed. I held up one of the ___ of English papers

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: We two were talking while the others argued. I had wanted to go to Abruzzi. I had gone to no place where the roads were frozen and hard as ___ , where it was clear cold and dry and the snow was dry and powdery and hare-tracks in the snow and the peasants took off their hats and called you Lord and there was good hunting

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: When I came back to the front we still lived in that town. There were many more guns in the country around and the spring had ___

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel:I saw the town with the hill and the old castle above it in a cup in the hills with the mountain beyond, brown mountains with a little green on their ___

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: He (to look) out of the window again. I watched his face.

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: He sat down in the chair that had (to be) brought for Rinaldi and looked out of the window embarrassedly. I noticed his face looked very tired

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: He was (to please) and undid them. I held the mosquito netting in my hands. The vermouth he held up for me to see and then put it on the floor beside the bed

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: I held up one of the sheaf of English papers. I could (to read) the headlines by turning it so the half-light from the window was on it. It was The News of the World

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Still even (to wond) you do not see it. I can tell. I do not see it myself but I feel it a little.”

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: The orderly brought the glasses and opened the bottle. He broke off the cork and the end had to be (to shove) down into the bottle. I could see the priest was disappointed but he said, “That’s all right. It’s no matter.”

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: The priest put down the glass. He was (to think) about something else

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Well,” I said. I did not (to know) what to say. “You are a fine boy,” I said.

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: “Have they ever (to be) able to stop it?”

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: “How do you do?” he asked. He (to put) some packages down by the bed, on the floor

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: “I (to be) a boy,” he said. But you call me father.”

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: “I am happy. I’ve always (to be) happy.”

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: “I am not really. You are not even an Italian. You are a foreigner. But you are nearer the officers than you ___ to the men. “

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: “I am so glad you are all right,” he said. “I (to hope) you don’t suffer.” He seemed very tired and I was not used to seeing him tired

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: “I brought you a few little things,” he said. He picked up the packages. “This is mosquito netting. This is a bottle of vermouth. You (to like) vermouth? These are English papers.”

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: “I can only (to stay) a minute,” he said. “It is late.”

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: “I don’t enjoy it,” I said. (to shake) his head and looked out of the window

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: “I know them because I (to be) like they are,” he said

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: “I must go really,” he said. “You do not want me for anything?” he (to ask) hopefully

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: “I stay too long and talk too much.” He was worried that he really (to do)

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: “I wish I were there. I always enjoyed our (to talk).”

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: “It is not education or money. It is something else. Even if they had education or money, men like Passini would not (to wish) to be officers. I would not be an officer.”

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: “It’s another thing. You cannot (to know) about it unless you have it.”

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: “Please (to open) them.”

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: “They are not organized to stop things and when they get (to organize) their leaders sell them out.”

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: “Well,” I said. If I ever get it I will (to tell) you.”

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: “When I was (to wound) we were talking about it. Passini was talking.”

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: “You (to rank) as an officer. I am an officer..”

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: “You do not mind it. You do not see it. You must forgive me. I know you (to be) wounded.”

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: “You will. I (to know) you will. Then you will be happy.”