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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 Walsh die from?

2. What kind of establishment does Fitzgerald live in in Paris?

3. Where does Evan Shipman meet Hemingway in Paris?

4. What does Stein call her companion?

5. What did Fitzgerald start to look like while he was talking to Hemingway for the first time?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How was Bel Esprit supposed to work out?

4. What does James Joyce ask Hemingway after Walsh's death?

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

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

7. How does Pascin die, and how does Hemingway like to remember him?

8. What surprises Hemingway about Fitzgerald's car?

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

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

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

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

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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