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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 many month's of savings does Hemingway's wife lose on a horse race?

2. What does Stein like Hemingway to talk about?

3. What does Ford accuse his waiter of doing while he is with Hemingway at the cafe?

4. How does Ford say Hemingway looks when he sits with him at the cafe?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Hemingway and Pond were both very dynamic leaders and father figures in this book. What are the differences in the two styles of leadership, and how do these differences affect their careers, their family, and their role in each other's lives?

Essay Topic 2

How did Hemingway's writing change over the course of his life, and what caused these changes?

Essay Topic 3

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

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