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

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

3. What job did the narrator have in the war?
(a) Kitchen
(b) Chaplain
(c) Supplies
(d) Reporter

4. 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 tired of fishing and sleeping outside
(c) He is too sick to stay overnight in the woods
(d) He is too shaken by what he has witnessed

5. What is meant by "riding the rails?"
(a) Putting up fences
(b) Riding on trains without paying the fare
(c) Driving a semi truck
(d) Taking the subway

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the evacuees do every night at midnight?

2. What is the narrator doing in the Memoir?

3. What do the sailors on the Simpson do to the evacuees every night?

4. What do Nick and Marjorie see?

5. What is the relationship between Nick and his nurse?

Short Essay Questions

1. What parallels does Hemingway draw between the three bullfighters and Mr. and Mrs. Elliot and her lover?

2. How does the story's setting also serve as a metaphor?

3. Explain the irony of the Memoir in Chapter 11.

4. Why does Hemingway insert the sullen waitress at the inn?

5. Why did the narrator make the point about the robbers being Hungarian--what is the irony in doing that?

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

7. Describe the setting for the Story in Chapter 10, "Cat in the Rain."

8. How does Hemingway end the story on a more hopeful note than how it began?

9. Who is the narrator of the story and why is he in Turkey?

10. Describe the narrator's tone in the Memoir for Chapter 4.

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