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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 are the women in Smyrna clinging to?

2. How does the General's wife die in "In Another Country"?

3. What is the name of Nick's girlfriend on the 4th of July?

4. What kind of people stay at the Luarca hotel?

5. Where does 'Cat in the Rain' take place?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the two prostitutes in "The Light of the World" arguing about?

2. What does the girl tell the boy in "The Sea Change", and how does he respond?

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

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

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

6. Why is Harold's mother worried about him when he returns from the war, and what does she have him do?

7. What happens to the Indian woman's husband while she is undergoing a C-Section?

8. What happens when Turner catches up with William Campbell?

9. What do Dr. Adams and Dick argue about?

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

There are a number of father and son relationships written about in these stories. Choose some of these to compare and contrast. How are they different? How are they similar?

Essay Topic 2

Hemingway includes some ingenious forms of irony in these stories. What are some of these examples, and how does their ironic nature affect the plot of the stories they are included in?

Essay Topic 3

The pursuit of happiness was a common theme found in these stories. What stories embody this theme, and how does that pursuit affect the characters involved?

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