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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 is Fitzgerald's wife's name?

2. Where did Hemingway want to go before he went to visit the cafes where the other writers frequent?

3. What does Fitzgerald say when he first meets Hemingway?

4. Who lets Hemingway into the house when Stein is not home?

5. Where does Hemingway hide the jar that Ezra gives him when he leaves town?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Shipman say Jean is already in trouble with the cafe he works at?

2. What does Hemingway love most about his friend, Ezra Pound?

3. What surprises Hemingway about Fitzgerald's car?

4. Why does Hemingway think Dunning reacted the way he did to the jar of opium?

5. What is the hardest writing project Hemingway ever completed, and where does he do it?

6. What causes the end of Hemingway's friendship with Stein?

7. How does Hemingway try to help Fitzgerald after hearing his secret?

8. What does Hemingway do after hearing the exchange between Stein and Toklas?

9. How was Bel Esprit supposed to work out?

10. What is the Pilot Fish and what does he do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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

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