In Our Time Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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In Our Time Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is the unnamed narrator of the story?
(a) A French waiter
(b) An American officer
(c) A Hungarian gypsy
(d) A Buddhist monk

3. What does Nick's father not do?
(a) Drive
(b) Hunt
(c) Drink
(d) Fish

4. What is the location of the Memoir for Chapter 3?
(a) France
(b) Wisconsin
(c) South Africa
(d) Germany

5. What do Nick and Bill decide to do?
(a) Call some girls
(b) Get drunk
(c) Go fishing
(d) Enlist in the army

6. Why are Nick and Marjorie together on this night?
(a) To go to a dance
(b) To set night lines for trout
(c) To go skinny dipping
(d) To elope

7. What does Krebs think he would like to have?
(a) A girlfriend
(b) A family
(c) A job
(d) A car

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

9. What does the soldier promise in the trench that he does not do when danger has passed?
(a) Call his mother
(b) Stop smoking
(c) Tell everyone about Jesus
(d) Write a letter to his girlfriend

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

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

12. What does Nick's father call the floating logs?
(a) Flotsam
(b) A nuisance
(c) Jetsam
(d) Kindling

13. What is the soldier in the Memoir for Chapter 7 doing?
(a) Praying in a trench
(b) Smoking a cigarette
(c) Cleaning his gun
(d) Writing a letter

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. About what do Nick and Bill agree is better than baseball?

2. What do Nick and Bill talk about?

3. Who is Agnes von Kurowsky?

4. What is a woman doing on a cart?

5. What does Nick do at sunrise the next morning?

(see the answer keys)

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