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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 are the Roman soldiers meeting in "Today is Friday"?

2. What does the narrator find after the first storm?

3. What does Dr. Adams do while he is talking to his wife after fighting with Dick?

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

5. What do Bill and Nick talk about while they drink whiskey together?

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. What are the officers in "In Another Country" doing in Milan?

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

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

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

7. What do the waiters in "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" talk about after the old deaf man leaves?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

There were many secrets made, kept, and told in these stories. What are some of these stories, and what significance do those secrets have on the plots they are involved 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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