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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hemingway like to think Cezanne felt while he was painting?

2. What country sent a letter for Hemingway to the Shakespeare and Company?

3. What other kind of racing does Hemingway become involved in?

4. Where does Hemingway put his racing budget?

5. What distracts Hemingway from his writing at the beginning of the book?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Hemingway do when he is interrupted at his cafe?

2. How does Hemingway feel about Stein's writing?

3. Why does Ford say he is a gentleman and Hemingway is not?

4. How does Hemingway feel about Stein's definition of the Lost Generation?

5. Who does Stein say belongs to the Lost Generation?

6. How does Hemingway justify the time he spends at the race track, and why is this ironic?

7. What happens when Hadley bets on a long shot at the races?

8. Why does Hemingway say he never wrote about some of the greatest moments he witnessed in bicycle racing?

9. How does Hemingway feel when he first enters Shakespeare and Company?

10. How does Hemingway describe the fishermen along the Seine?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Anger was a vice that reared its ugly head a number of times in this book. What are some examples of this, and how was Hemingway's life altered because of these incidents?

Essay Topic 2

What happens when Fitzgerald dies, and what significance does this have on Hemingway's life? Who is involved in the tragedy there, and what does this monumental event mean to Hemingway?

Essay Topic 3

What did Hemingway learn through his jarring experience with Dunning, the poet addicted to opium?

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