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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. Where did Hemingway meet Chink?

2. Where is Sylvia Beach from?

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

4. Who is Hemingway's favorite artist?

5. How does Hemingway say he feels about the privacy at his cafe?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Hemingway feel comfortable in his state of poverty?

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

4. What does Hemingway do to make his stories more poetic?

5. How does Stein think Hemingway views homosexuals?

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

7. How does Hemingway feel after his discussion about homosexuals with Stein?

8. What does Hemingway like about his favorite cafe in Paris?

9. Why does Ford get mad at the waiter from the cafe?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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