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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hemingway say would make the story about the interruption more interesting?
(a) If he had done what he wanted.
(b) If he had told the entire truth.
(c) If the man had become a well-known critic.
(d) If Hemingway had really blown up.

2. What does Stein like Hemingway to talk about?
(a) His past romances.
(b) Stories from the war.
(c) His journalism travels.
(d) His writing techniques.

3. Who types up Gertrude's writing?
(a) Hemingway's wife.
(b) Toklas.
(c) Bobby.
(d) Hemingway.

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

5. When does Hemingway stop writing for the day?
(a) When he knows what will happen next.
(b) When it gets too boring.
(c) When he can't figure out what to do next.
(d) When he starts to feel rushed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is less challenging to Hemingway in Paris after his winter vacation?

2. Where is Hemingway at the beginning of the book?

3. What does Gertrude say Hemingway should NOT write?

4. What does Hemingway compare finishing a story to?

5. What does Ford accuse his waiter of doing while he is with Hemingway at the cafe?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Hemingway lose his stories?

2. How does finishing a story make Hemingway feel?

3. What does Hemingway's wife say when she hears about the Shakespeare's company?

4. Why does Hemingway say he never wrote about some of the greatest moments he witnessed in bicycle racing?

5. What did Hemingway say would make his story about the interrupter more interesting?

6. Why does Hemingway say he does not fish himself?

7. Why is Hemingway writing about Michigan while he is in Paris?

8. How does Hemingway describe the fishermen along the Seine?

9. Where do many of Hemingway's stories take place, and why?

10. Why does Stein dislike Ezra Pound's work?

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