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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 the American soldier in Italy just survive?

2. How old is Mr. Elliot when he gets married?

3. What does Peduzzi take an American couple out to do?

4. Where does Nick meet Hopkins?

5. Why does the boy think the girl wants to do the unnamed activity?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Joey's father die, and how do the other men respond to this death?

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

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

4. What is Nick doing when he meets Adolph Francis and Bugs?

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

6. Who does the American soldier talk with during the night, and what is said?

7. Why is Guy's car stopped as he travels through Italy, and what does he have to do to continue?

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

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

10. What does the narrator tell the old man at the bridge to do, and why does he not listen?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Many characters in these stories are forced to sacrifice much in order to obtain their goals. Who are some of these characters, and how do their sacrifices affect the other characters around them? Are these sacrifices worth the reward? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Hemingway presents the idea that there are two sides to every man. Choose three of the characters from the stories, and write about their dual natures and how this duality affected the characters around them.

Essay Topic 3

The relationship between fear and courage is presented in a few of these stories. What is this relationship, and where is it displayed in these stories? How does the combination of these terms affect the course of those plots?

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