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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What dismays Hadley about the Pound's marriage?
(a) Dorothy is Ezra's equal in all ways.
(b) It was open, and both had other lovers.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Their relationship is all consuming.

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

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

4. Who are Kate and Kenley Smith?
(a) No one Hadley has ever met.
(b) A husband and wife.
(c) Twins who Hadley meets at the party.
(d) Friends of Hadley's.

5. Why is Ernest feeling down when Hadley visits him?
(a) His father was dying.
(b) His brother is missing.
(c) His mother was there visiting.
(d) His has received his third rejection from the Saturday Evening Post.

6. What is Hadley's major objection to Ernest's assignment?
(a) His emotional state is too fragile for the work.
(b) He might get lonely and cheat on her.
(c) It is so far away from where they are living.
(d) It is dangerous.

7. What does Hadley suspect about Kate?
(a) She hopes to be involved with Ernest.
(b) She had been involved at one time with Ernest.
(c) She is divorcing her husband.
(d) She is pregnant.

8. What does Hadley not mention to Fonnie when she returns to St. Louis?
(a) Her possible pregnancy.
(b) Her desire to move to New York.
(c) Ernest.
(d) Her depression.

9. Whom does Hadley feel guilty about while she is in Chicago?
(a) Kate.
(b) Her sister Dorothea.
(c) Her sister Fonnie.
(d) Her brother was ill in St. Louis and she does not return to nurse him.

10. Where does Hadley travel in January to see Ernest?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) New York.
(d) Los Angeles.

11. What do the train officials tell Hadley?
(a) They will loan her some money to replace what was stolen.
(b) They will not allow anyone to disembark without searching them.
(c) Nothing.
(d) There was little hope of Hadley recovering the bag.

12. What does Hadley admire about Ernest regarding his mother?
(a) He can love her yet not be dominated by her.
(b) Hadley does not mention Ernest and his mother.
(c) He admires her so much.
(d) He speaks his feelings about her.

13. Who visited the Hemingways for Christmas?
(a) Hadley's sister.
(b) Ernest's parents.
(c) Ernest's brother.
(d) Chink.

14. Where do the Hemingways spend some time?
(a) Prague.
(b) Chamby.
(c) Lucerne.
(d) Bern.

15. Sherwood Anderson recommends that ________________.
(a) Ernest divorce and devote himself to his work.
(b) Ernest come and live near Anderson.
(c) Ernest go to New York to work on his craft.
(d) Ernest go to Paris to work on his craft.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what do the Hemingways decide to splurge?

2. Why does Anderson write to Ezra Pound, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein?

3. What does Hadley tell another passenger about what she lost?

4. What is Hadley hoping to do at the party?

5. For whom is Hemingway writing copy?

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