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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The End of an Avocation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Stein call Hemingway's generation?
(a) The Angry Generation.
(b) The Lost Generation.
(c) The Needed Generation.
(d) The Missing Generation.

2. What does Hemingway feel his writing will become?
(a) Forced.
(b) Impotent.
(c) Repetitive.
(d) Abstract.

3. What does Hemingway's wife say that Hemingway often has in his life to help him?
(a) Luck.
(b) Skill.
(c) Good timing.
(d) Friends.

4. Why does Hemingway feel the way he does when he first enters Sylvia's store?
(a) He does not have the money for the lending club.
(b) He knows famous people frequent the store.
(c) He is not dressed well.
(d) He is very attracted to Sylvia.

5. What kind of books does Hemingway love to find on his walks?
(a) Latin.
(b) Historical.
(c) English.
(d) French.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hemingway do to distract himself from his own writing?

2. What is Hemingway's wife's name?

3. What ends Hemingway's time in Paris?

4. What does Stein like Hemingway to talk about?

5. What does Hemingway's wife usually do during the early mornings?

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