In the dark the flood looked … The water swirled and it was wide.
(*ответ*) high
appalling
calm
dangerous
It is in … that we become Christian.
(*ответ*) defeat
happiness
trouble
victory
It was strange for Federico to go up the slope where the … had been, beyond the place on the river where he had been wounded.
(*ответ*) Austrians
Americans
British
Italians
It was … when the priest came in.
(*ответ*) dusk
cold
winter
dark
Many people had realized the war
(*ответ*) that summer
that day
that year
that winter
Mr. and Mrs. Guttingen’s son was studying to be … .
(*ответ*) a head-waiter
an engineer
a doctor
a lower
Mr. Guttingen had been … .
(*ответ*) a head-waiter
a doctor
a taxi-driver
a sailor
Snow did not come until … .
(*ответ*) three days before Christmas
Christmas
one day before Christmas
two weeks after Christmas
The Brigade had received orders that …. should be held no matter what happened.
(*ответ*) the line of the Bainsizza
the line of Abruzzi
the line of Caporetto
San Gabriele
The captain advised the narrator to go to … .
(*ответ*) Naples
Capri
Palermo
Abruzzi
The killing of … came suddenly and unreasonably .
(*ответ*) Aimo
Federico
Piani
Bonello
The narrator had expected the Bainsizza to be ….
(*ответ*) flatter, more like a plateau
razed to the ground
more civilized
higher, more like a mountain
The narrator lived …
(*ответ*) by sight drafts
at the expense of his wife
by the money the Italian government paid him
by his own savings
The narrator shared the room with the … .
(*ответ*) lieutenant Rinaldi
the major
the captain
the priest
The next year there were many…
(*ответ*) victories
losses
retreats
defeats
The other carabinieri grabbed … from behind and pulled his arm up so that it twisted in the socket.
(*ответ*) Federico
one of the officer in the column
Piani
the lieutenant-colonel
The plain was rich with … .
(*ответ*) crops
oak trees
rodents
animals
The priest and the narrator were talking while the others …
(*ответ*) shouted
argued
listened
kept silence
The priest’s father was a famous …
(*ответ*) hunter
pilot
painter
farmer
The … has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start.
(*ответ*) peasant
major
king
soldier
The … were coming into the post, some were carried on stretchers, some walking and some were brought on the backs of men that came across the field.
(*ответ*) wounded
children
captives
sick
There was fighting in the mountains and at night they could see … .
(*ответ*) the flashes from the artillery
the flashes of lightning
the glow in the sky
the northern lights
Up the river the … had no been taken; none of the … beyond the river had been taken.
(*ответ*) mountains
forests
towns
plains