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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 does Hemingway's wife say that Hemingway often has in his life to help him?

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

3. How does Hemingway feel when his writing gets interrupted?

4. What does Hemingway like to think Cezanne felt while he was painting?

5. How does Hemingway describe the part of Paris that he and his family lived in?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Hemingway justify the time he spends at the race track, and why is this ironic?

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

5. What is Hemingway's wife excited about when he returns to their apartment at the beginning of the book?

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

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

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

9. Who does Stein say belongs to the Lost Generation?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Friendship is something that was very important to Hemingway in his life. Where are some places that friendship appears, and how do the people touched by it react? How do certain friendships change over the course of the book, and what causes these changes?

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

Death and mortality were two integral themes in Hemingway's life. What are some of the key examples of this theme, and how did the presence of this affect Hemingway's relationships?

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