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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Bugs do to calm Ad down?
(a) Gives him a sedative
(b) Knocks him out
(c) Sings a lullaby
(d) Makes him drink whiskey

3. Why does Ad get mad at Nick?
(a) He does not give him the knife
(b) He insults his mother
(c) He does not have any cigarettes
(d) He does not have any whiskey

4. What does Krebs' mother want him to do?
(a) Take care of his grandmother
(b) Go to college
(c) Make something of himself and get married
(d) Move out of the house

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nick's father not do?

2. Who comes for Nick's father for help while he and Nick are on a fishing trip?

3. What does Nick's father call the floating logs?

4. What are Nick and Marjorie doing as the story begins?

5. How does Nick sustain his injury?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Hemingway show contrasts in character in this story?

2. What is meant by "riding the rails" in the story in Chapter 5?

3. How else does Hemingway allude to another meaning of the word "blow?"

4. What is the setting for the story "The End of Something" in Chapter 3?

5. How does Hemingway use dialogue to show the crumbling state of the young couple's marriage?

6. What is a quai and what is its significance to the story?

7. What is the significance of the character, Nick Adams, introduced in this chapter?

8. Explain the symbolism of the disassembled fishing rods carried by the young American wife.

9. Besides death and the fear of it, what is another important theme in the book which is evident in the Memoir for Chapter 2?

10. Who is the narrator of the Memoir for Chapter 13, and with whom does he interact in this very short scene?

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