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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 Fitzgerald say when he first meets Hemingway?

2. Where does Hemingway spend the money he was going to give to Bel Esprit?

3. What does Hemingway say the great treasure of living in Paris is?

4. What is Dunning's occupation?

5. What does the Pilot Fish attract to the mountains?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Hemingway say about Dostoyevsky's writing?

3. How are things with Fitzgerald when he moves to the villa?

4. How was Bel Esprit supposed to work out?

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

6. What does Pascin ask Hemingway when they see each other at a cafe?

7. How does Fitzgerald start to act when he is drunk after his summer trip?

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

9. What does Dunning do when Hemingway brings him a jar of opium?

10. What surprises Hemingway about Fitzgerald's car?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Each of Hemingway's writer friends had very different characteristics and personalities. What are the defining features of each of these people, and how did their individuality affect Hemingway's life?

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

What are some of the defining moments in Hemingway's friendship with Fitzgerald, and how did these moments affect Hemingway's life?

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