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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 say the great treasure of living in Paris is?

2. What animal does Hemingway compare Wyndham Lewis to?

3. Where does Hemingway first meet Fitzgerald?

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

5. Why does Hemingway continue to live in Paris?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How does Walsh die, and how does Hemingway try to help him at the end of his life?

10. What surprises Hemingway about Fitzgerald's car?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

What are some of the ways Hemingway and Hadley showed their love to each other, and how did these displays alter the course of their lives?

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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