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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. At the medical facility, Frederic is diagnosed with many superficial wounds, as well as significant wounds to his:

2. What is the time setting of this story?

3. This statement best describes Rinaldi's reaction to Frederic spending time with Catherine.

4. Rinaldi has been keeping what item as a reminder of his friend, Frederic?

5. What is the problem Frederic encounters when he gets on the train?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is friendship portrayed in the novel so far?

2. Why do you think Frederic is so eager to return to the battlefield when additional time in the hospital gives him additional time with Catherine?

3. Describe the character, Rinaldi.

4. Discuss the tone of the opening two chapters.

5. How has Frederic's attitude toward the war's resolution changed?

6. Describe the couple's goodbye at the station.

7. Describe the friendship between Frederic and Rinaldi.

8. What evidence is given that Catherine is approaching their relationship tentatively at this time?

9. Describe Ettore.

10. Discuss Hemingway's use of irony in the scene between Frederic and the barber.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Character development is an essential element of a novel. Select a character and discuss how that character changes throughout the course of the novel. Be sure to:

- describe the character at the beginning of the novel;

- discuss events that contribute to that character's change;

- describe the changed character;

- discuss how the changes in the character propel the plot.

Essay Topic 2

Water is a reoccurring symbol in this novel. It appears as lakes, rivers, and rain.

1 - Summarize the places in the story where Hemingway utilizes water as a symbol.

2- What does this symbol seem to stand for when looking at the novel as a whole? How is this different from how Catherine's mentioning of rain in the beginning of the novel?

3 - How does the use of this symbol intensify the plot and the writing?

Essay Topic 3

What is the role of patriotism in this novel? Compare and contrast Frederic with the patriotic character, Gino, from Chapter 27. What are the views of each man? Discuss their difference of opinion to uncover the main point each believes about the war. In what ways does the novel critique the romantic rhetoric of war, honor, and patriotism?

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