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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. How does Hadley always feel at the racetrack?

2. What does Stein like Hemingway to talk about?

3. Why does Hemingway stop betting at the race track?

4. What does Gertrude think of the story 'Up in Michigan'?

5. Where do most book vendors find their books to sell?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Stein first hear the phrase, 'The Lost Generation'?

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

3. What kind of racing does Mike say he prefers, and why?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What happens when Fitzgerald dies, and what significance does this have on Hemingway's life? Who is involved in the tragedy there, and what does this monumental event mean to Hemingway?

Essay Topic 2

How does the relationship between Hemingway and Hadley change throughout the course of this book, and how do these changes affect the people around them?

Essay Topic 3

Alice was a person who was seen very little in this book, but whose presence made a big difference in Hemingway's life. How does she accomplish this? What are some ways that her presence, however brief, altered Hemingway's life? What would have happened differently if she had not been in the book at all?

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