View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who is Marjorie?
(a) Nick's sister
(b) Nick's piano teacher
(c) Nick's mother
(d) Nick's girlfriend

4. In what year does this story take place?
(a) 1922
(b) 1903
(c) 1822
(d) 2002

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. What is unusual about Ad's face?
(a) His eyes are slits, nose is sunken and an ear is missing
(b) He has no eyebrows
(c) One eye is brown, the other is blue
(d) He is scarred on the entire left side

12. What is a quai?
(a) A loud noise
(b) A legal term
(c) A flock of quails
(d) A dock

13. What feeling does Nick have on this morning?
(a) That he is homesick
(b) That he will never die
(c) That he does not want to leave
(d) That he wants to remember this morning forever

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

15. What is the attitude of the narrator telling the story?
(a) Sympathetic
(b) Amused
(c) Angry
(d) Callous

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the girl Nick has recently broken up with?

2. When do Nick and his nurse meet again?

3. What is Nick's father's profession?

4. What does Nick say about his father?

5. Who is Dick Boulton?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 436 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample