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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Agnes von Kurowsky?
(a) The public relations rep for a publishing company
(b) The wife of Hemingway's sergeant
(c) Hemingway's editor
(d) The nurse with whom Hemingway has an affair

2. What does Nick do at sunrise the next morning?
(a) Cooks breakfast over the fire
(b) Goes into town to buy bait
(c) Watches a bass jumping in the lake
(d) Packs the car to return home

3. What does Krebs tell about the war?
(a) His actual experiences
(b) Lies
(c) Nothing
(d) Occasional stories

4. What do Nick and his nurse do before he returns to the front lines?
(a) Break up
(b) Pray
(c) Fight
(d) Get married

5. Who is Dick Boulton?
(a) A school board member
(b) The head of the local plumbers union
(c) One of the men who comes to work for Nick's father
(d) The mayor of the town

6. How does Nick sustain his injury?
(a) He falls down stairs
(b) He is sucker punched
(c) He falls on an icy sidewalk
(d) He is hit by a car

7. Where does Krebs live?
(a) Ohio
(b) Oklahoma
(c) Oregon
(d) New Mexico

8. A U.S. ship called the Simpson is in a ______________ state.
(a) friendly
(b) foreign
(c) stand down
(d) battle-ready

9. Who is the girl Nick has recently broken up with?
(a) Mary
(b) Marie
(c) Mary Ellen
(d) Marjorie

10. Where does Krebs plan to go to get a job?
(a) Boise
(b) Kansas City
(c) Wichita
(d) Des Moines

11. What does Krebs' mother allow him to do now?
(a) Take the car in the evenings
(b) Move to a bigger city
(c) Get a job
(d) Bring a girl home for dinner

12. Whose life does the character of Nick Adams parallel?
(a) Ernest Hemingway
(b) T.S. Eliot
(c) F. Scott Fitzgerald
(d) William Faulkner

13. How long has Nick's nurse stayed on night duty to care for him?
(a) 3 weeks
(b) 3 days
(c) 3 months
(d) 3 years

14. What has Marjorie brought along tonight?
(a) Homework
(b) A picnic lunch
(c) A transistor radio
(d) A bottle of champagne

15. Who is Nick's nurse in Padua?
(a) Lana
(b) Lois
(c) Luz
(d) Louise

Short Answer Questions

1. What shocking event occurs this night for Nick, his father and Uncle George?

2. What is the attitude of the narrator telling the story?

3. What does Nick do when he learns that his mother wants to see him?

4. In the Memoir for Chapter 4, what do the soldiers use for a barricade against the enemy?

5. What is a woman doing on a cart?

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