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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 is the location of the Story in Chapter 3?
(a) Montana
(b) New Mexico
(c) Michigan
(d) Maine

2. Who is the girl Nick has recently broken up with?
(a) Mary Ellen
(b) Mary
(c) Marie
(d) Marjorie

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

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

5. What does Bill's father say makes drunkards?
(a) Opening liquor bottles
(b) Sad memories
(c) Too much money
(d) No self restraint

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Marjorie?

3. What makes Krebs' mother cry?

4. What profession does Nick's father have?

5. What is a quai?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Explain the significance of the bullfighting scenario in the Memoir of Chapter 9.

3. Stylistically, what is significant about the Memoir and story of Chapter 6?

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

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

6. Why does the ending of his relationship with his nurse particularly wound Nick?

7. In the Story of Chapter 8, another Hungarian man is introduced as the main character. Describe his situation.

8. Explain the subject of the Memoir of Chapter 15.

9. Why is Krebs short-tempered with his mother and her plans for his new life?

10. Describe how Hemingway's writing style captures the drama and bravado of Villalta, a very successful matador.

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