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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. How does Hemingway feel about many of Stein's new friends?

2. What makes Hemingway constantly hungry when he is in the mountains?

3. Why does Zelda get excited when her husband drinks some wine?

4. What does Stein call her companion?

5. Where does Evan Shipman meet Hemingway in Paris?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dunning do when Hemingway brings him a jar of opium?

2. What is the hardest writing project Hemingway ever completed, and where does he do it?

3. What does Hemingway love most about his friend, Ezra Pound?

4. What does Hemingway say about Dostoyevsky's writing?

5. Why does Hemingway think Dunning reacted the way he did to the jar of opium?

6. What does Pascin ask Hemingway when they see each other at a cafe?

7. What does Hemingway do after hearing the exchange between Stein and Toklas?

8. What does Fitzgerald say he does after he writes his stories?

9. What big secret does Fitzgerald confide in Hemingway about?

10. How does Hemingway try to help Fitzgerald after hearing his secret?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The people in this book all had their own goals and motivations. Select four people and write their main motivation throughout the book, and how this goal affected the people around them.

Essay Topic 2

Friendship is something that was very important to Hemingway in his life. Where are some places that friendship appears, and how do the people touched by it react? How do certain friendships change over the course of the book, and what causes these changes?

Essay Topic 3

Which person did you relate with the most in this book? Why is this? How did this person change throughout the book?

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