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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 occupation does Peduzzi hold?

2. Where does George work?

3. Who makes Nick dinner on the 4th of July?

4. Where does Nick meet Luz?

5. Why is Guy stopped by a fascist officer?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Bill and Nick feel about Nick's ended relationship with Marjorie?

2. What happens on the first day of Francis Macomber's hunting trip?

3. What does the American wife do when she hears a cat caught in the rain?

4. What does the young couple reveal to the older American woman as the train stops?

5. What does Nick tell Anderson, and how does Anderson respond?

6. Why does Jack get a hotel room for the night of his last boxing match?

7. How does the American couple feel about the trip Peduzzi takes them on, and why?

8. What does Nick's father tell him on the 4th of July, and how does Nick respond?

9. What does Jim do with Liz after returning from his hunting trip?

10. How does Paco from "The Capital of the World" die?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Training and education are topics of discussion in these stories. Where do these topics appear in this book, and what affect do they have on the characters involved in those plots?

Essay Topic 2

Nick Adams was a character we were able to follow through a number of different stories. How does he change over the course of his life, and what causes these changes?

Essay Topic 3

There were many characters in these stories who were manipulated and persuaded to do things they did not want to do. What are some of these instances, and how are those characters affected by the manipulation?

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