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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. Where is the revolutionist tortured?

2. What is Luz's occupation?

3. Where does George work?

4. What do Bill and Nick drink after the whiskey is gone?

5. Who is in power while Guy is traveling through Italy?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What are the Roman soldiers talking about in "Today is Friday"?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Despair was an emotion that affected a number of the characters in these stories. Which characters are most affected by despair, and how does this change the course of the plots they are involved in?

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

Failure is a strong theme in these stories. Which of the plot lines best displays this theme, and which characters are most affected by it?

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