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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 the name of the owner of the bar that Fitzgerald frequented?

2. How does Hemingway feel about many of Stein's new friends?

3. Who else does Walsh offer the literary award to?

4. How does a man die when Hemingway is watching in the mountains?

5. Why does Hemingway leave the cafe Select?

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. What does Fitzgerald say he does after he writes his stories?

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

5. What surprises Hemingway about Fitzgerald's car?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Love was a very important attribute and motivating factor in this book. Which people were most affected by this theme? Which relationships were the most significant to Hemingway's life and why?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Death and mortality were two integral themes in Hemingway's life. What are some of the key examples of this theme, and how did the presence of this affect Hemingway's relationships?

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