View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Hemingway want to go before he went to visit the cafes where the other writers frequent?
(a) A restaurant.
(b) The horse track.
(c) Shakespeare and Company.
(d) The Louvre.

2. Where is Ernest Walsh from?
(a) Canada.
(b) France.
(c) Italy.
(d) Ireland.

3. Where is Hemingway when he meets Ernest Walsh?
(a) Stein's ballroom.
(b) Shakespeare and Company.
(c) A cafe.
(d) Pounds' studio.

4. What does Fitzgerald say when he first meets Hemingway?
(a) He asks about Paris culture.
(b) He compliments Hemingway's work.
(c) He asks Hemingway's opinion on his own writing.
(d) He tries to set Hemingway up with a girl.

5. Why does Zelda get excited when her husband drinks some wine?
(a) He can't work when he is drunk.
(b) He is easier to manipulate when he is drunk.
(c) He spends more money when he is drunk.
(d) He is nicer to her when he is drunk.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Hemingway hide the jar that Ezra gives him when he leaves town?

2. Why does Zelda have a fight with Fitzgerald at a party?

3. Where did T.S. Elliot work before he became a great writer?

4. How does a man die when Hemingway is watching in the mountains?

5. Why does Hemingway continue to live in Paris?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Hemingway think Dunning reacted the way he did to the jar of opium?

2. What does Hemingway love most about his friend, Ezra Pound?

3. What is the Pilot Fish and what does he do?

4. How does Fitzgerald start to act when he is drunk after his summer trip?

5. What does Fitzgerald say he does after he writes his stories?

6. How was Bel Esprit supposed to work out?

7. What big secret does Fitzgerald confide in Hemingway about?

8. How does Walsh die, and how does Hemingway try to help him at the end of his life?

9. What surprises Hemingway about Fitzgerald's car?

10. What does Dunning do when Hemingway brings him a jar of opium?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 784 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample