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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are Nick and Marjorie together on this night?
(a) To go to a dance
(b) To set night lines for trout
(c) To go skinny dipping
(d) To elope

2. Why do Nick and Bill not go out in the boat?
(a) The pond is frozen
(b) It is too dark
(c) It is being repaired
(d) It is too cold

3. Which book of Hemingway's will devote more time to his war hospital recovery?
(a) To Have and Have Not
(b) A Farewell to Arms
(c) For Whom the Bell Tolls
(d) The Sun Also Rises

4. Whose life does the character of Nick Adams parallel?
(a) T.S. Eliot
(b) William Faulkner
(c) Ernest Hemingway
(d) F. Scott Fitzgerald

5. What is the nature of the problem with which Nick's father can assist?
(a) A man needs a will drawn up
(b) A man has hacked off his forearm
(c) A woman is having trouble delivering a baby
(d) A man has been indicted on criminal charges

Short Answer Questions

1. What war does the narrator mention in the memoir for Chapter 1?

2. What does Nick say about his father?

3. Nick accuses Marjorie of always _____________________.

4. What do the evacuees do every night at midnight?

5. Which one of Nick's friends asks about Marjorie?

(see the answer key)

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