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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Ernest and Hadley go for their honeymoon?
(a) Idaho.
(b) Tobago.
(c) Hemingway's family cottage.
(d) Paris.

2. Who does Ernest find to be not very bright?
(a) Fitzgerald.
(b) Mussolini.
(c) Hitler.
(d) Grave.

3. What does Ernest decide to do?
(a) Take time off to re-write his work.
(b) Divorce Hadley if she didn't stop complaining.
(c) Not return to the States until he was a successfully published author.
(d) Ask his father for money.

4. How was the visit to Gertrude Stein unusual?
(a) They meet in Gertrude's kitchen.
(b) Hadley chats with Gertrude's "wife," Alice while Ernest chats with Gertrude.
(c) They are served bizarre finger food.
(d) They have to listen to a lecture by an obscure philologist.

5. Why does Anderson write to Ezra Pound, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein?
(a) To ask them to teach Hemingway the ropes.
(b) To share gossip.
(c) To tell them that Hemingway probably has no talent.
(d) To introduce Hemingway.

6. Where does Ernest's job send him?
(a) Russian.
(b) Greece.
(c) Turkey.
(d) Siberia.

7. What had Hadley finally learned from Kate?
(a) Ernest had sexually assaulted her.
(b) She had been in love with Ernest.
(c) Ernest had rejected her handily.
(d) She had made a fool of herself with Ernest.

8. For what organization is Ernest working?
(a) The London Times.
(b) The Paris Review.
(c) The Toronto Star.
(d) The New York Times.

9. How is Gertrude Stein characterized in A Paris Wife?
(a) As somewhat of a passive person.
(b) As a lesbian.
(c) As a psuedo-intellectual.
(d) As a mediocre writer.

10. Where is Hadley Richardson?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Denver.
(c) Cleveland.
(d) Louisville.

11. Of what does Ernest accuse Hadley?
(a) Being jealous of every woman.
(b) Having an affair.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Not being supportive of his writing.

12. Ernest's expression sometimes reminds Hadley of ______________.
(a) A lost puppy.
(b) Her father's expression.
(c) Her brother when he was young.
(d) Nothing.

13. Why does Anderson not recommend Rome for Ernest?
(a) Rome is too conservative.
(b) Rome restricts the content of books.
(c) Rome is too dangerous.
(d) Serious artists go to Paris.

14. Who fascinates Hadley?
(a) No one.
(b) An elderly gentleman who is a professor.
(c) A young man at the party she does not know.
(d) The master of ceremonies.

15. Where does Ernest go to report on an economic conference?
(a) Berlin.
(b) London.
(c) Rome.
(d) Genoa.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hadley lose on the train?

2. What does Hadley think will help take her mind off her grief?

3. Whom does Ezra excoriate when the Hemingways are out with them?

4. What did Hadley's mother say about a wife who likes sex?

5. How does Hadley respond to Ernest's assignment?

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