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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 American woman's daughter sad about?

2. What occupation does Zurito have?

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

4. What does the girl tell the boy in "A Sea Change"?

5. What is Campbell doing when Frank leaves him after finding him?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the story behind the burial that the two men witness while skiing?

4. Why does the patient want to be castrated, and what happens to him?

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

6. How does Nick feel about his life in 'Big Two-Hearted River'?

7. What is Harold's one criteria in a wife?

8. What is given precedence over the man who dies in "Banal Story"?

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

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

Symbolism is a very prevalent literary device used by Hemingway. What are some of these symbols, and how does their presence affect the course of the plots they are involved in?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Sexuality is a theme presented in a number of these stories, and it is manifested in a number of different ways. Choose a few of these instances, and compare and contrast them. How are they different in their manifestations of this sensitive theme?

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