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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What country sent a letter for Hemingway to the Shakespeare and Company?

2. What kind of car does Stein drive?

3. Where does Hemingway work the day after he is interrupted?

4. What does Hemingway want to write stories about?

5. What kind of books does Hemingway love to find on his walks?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does the caped man turn out to be?

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

3. Where do the booksellers find most of the English books they sell?

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

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

6. What does Hemingway carry with him at all times for luck?

7. Why does Hemingway say he feels the way he does about homosexuals?

8. Where does Hemingway do a lot of his writing?

9. How does Stein think Hemingway views homosexuals?

10. How do two of Hemingway's stories survive?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Which person did you relate with the most in this book? Why is this? How did this person change throughout the book?

Essay Topic 2

What was Hemingway's preferred writing process, and how did he come to create this process?

Essay Topic 3

What did Hemingway learn through his jarring experience with Dunning, the poet addicted to opium?

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