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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Nick's father's profession?
(a) Doctor
(b) Accountant
(c) Lawyer
(d) Minister

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

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

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

6. Who is Krebs?
(a) Nick's best army buddy
(b) Nick's sergeant
(c) A soldier adjusting to civilian life
(d) Nick's recruiting officer

7. Why do Nick and Bill not go out in the boat?
(a) It is too dark
(b) The pond is frozen
(c) It is too cold
(d) It is being repaired

8. Why does Uncle George not accompany Nick and his father back to their camp that night?
(a) He has to go to work in the morning
(b) He is too shaken by what he has witnessed
(c) He is tired of fishing and sleeping outside
(d) He is too sick to stay overnight in the woods

9. What does Nick call his friend, Rinaldi, in the Memoir?
(a) A man among men
(b) The best friend he has ever had
(c) A disappointing audience
(d) A poor excuse for a man

10. Which book of Hemingway's will devote more time to his war hospital recovery?
(a) To Have and Have Not
(b) For Whom the Bell Tolls
(c) The Sun Also Rises
(d) A Farewell to Arms

11. What does Nick do when he learns that his mother wants to see him?
(a) Takes the car into town
(b) Takes the boat out onto the lake
(c) Goes on a walk with his father
(d) Goes fishing

12. What fills the muddy roads leading out of the city?
(a) Greek citizens pulling carts with all their belongings
(b) Garbage from a garbage strike
(c) Water from unrelenting rains
(d) Tanks and other military vehicles

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a woman doing on a cart?

2. What is the nature of the problem with which Nick's father can assist?

3. What war does the narrator mention in the memoir for Chapter 1?

4. To where does Nick walk to visit his friend, Bill?

5. Where does Nick find Bill?

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