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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bill's father say makes drunkards?
(a) Too much money
(b) No self restraint
(c) Sad memories
(d) Opening liquor bottles

2. What does Nick say is no longer any fun?
(a) Skinny dipping
(b) Baseball
(c) Fishing
(d) Love

3. In the Memoir for Chapter 5, what are the condemned army officers covered with before their execution?
(a) Olive oil
(b) Paint
(c) Hoods
(d) Wet, dead leaves

4. Where did Bugs meet Ad?
(a) Detroit
(b) In school
(c) A homeless shelter
(d) In jail

5. What does Nick's father hire some local Indians to do?
(a) Paint his house
(b) Cut logs that have drifted onto his property
(c) Till a new garden
(d) Plant some new trees

6. What has happened to Nick in the Memoir of Chapter 6?
(a) He was shot in the spine
(b) He got a new job
(c) He got married
(d) He graduated college

7. Who comes for Nick's father for help while he and Nick are on a fishing trip?
(a) A Marine
(b) A banker
(c) Two loggers
(d) Two criminals

8. What do Nick and Bill drink?
(a) Hot chocolate
(b) Coffee
(c) Tea
(d) Irish whiskey

9. What does Dick Boulton call the logs?
(a) Kindling
(b) Zeus' toothpicks
(c) A nuisance
(d) Stolen property

10. Where does Nick find Bill?
(a) At the library
(b) In town
(c) At his father's cottage
(d) At school

11. What do the evacuees do every night at midnight?
(a) Cry
(b) Scream
(c) Sleep
(d) Sing

12. What makes Krebs' mother cry?
(a) When Krebs says he does not love anybody
(b) When Krebs says he is going to reenlist
(c) When Krebs slaps her
(d) When Krebs and his father fight

13. What is the relationship between Nick and his nurse?
(a) They are cordial
(b) He wants to marry her
(c) It is very strained
(d) They do not get along

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

15. Who else is attempting to leave Smyrna?
(a) Romanian gypsies
(b) Greek civilians
(c) U.S. tourists
(d) Russian immigrants

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Nick and Bill talk about?

2. Where does Nick like to spend time at the hospital?

3. Which book of Hemingway's will devote more time to his war hospital recovery?

4. Where does Krebs live?

5. What does Krebs think he would like to have?

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