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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 Dunning's occupation?

2. Why does Hemingway leave the cafe Select?

3. What is the name of Ezra Pound's wife?

4. Where does Dunning climb to after he returns from the asylum?

5. What kind of authors does Pound tell Hemingway to read?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What big secret does Fitzgerald confide in Hemingway about?

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

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

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

6. How was Bel Esprit supposed to work out?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Courage and fear were two attributes that were seen a number of times in this book. Where do they appear, and how does the presence of these feelings change the people who are involved in those moments?

Essay Topic 2

Anger was a vice that reared its ugly head a number of times in this book. What are some examples of this, and how was Hemingway's life altered because of these incidents?

Essay Topic 3

What was the Bel Esprit, and why was Pound so invested in its creation? How did Pound's involvement in the Bel Esprit affect Hemingway's life, and his relationship with Ezra Pound?

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