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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. Why does Dr. Adams think Boulton picked a fight with him?
(a) He is off his antidepressant medication
(b) His wife just left him
(c) Boulton owes him money and did not want to do the job
(d) He is angry about segregation

2. Why does the Lieutenant ride his horse out into the field?
(a) He is looking for mines
(b) He is lost
(c) He is exploring
(d) He is drunk

3. What has Marjorie brought along tonight?
(a) A bottle of champagne
(b) A picnic lunch
(c) A transistor radio
(d) Homework

4. When do Nick and his nurse meet again?
(a) After the armistice
(b) When he gets leave
(c) When she quits her job
(d) When she comes to America

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What job did the narrator have in the war?

2. What do Nick and Bill drink?

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

4. What does Krebs' mother allow him to do now?

5. What is the narrator doing in the Memoir?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the scenario for the story in Chapter 2?

3. Explain the scenario of the Memoir of Chapter 8.

4. What is the most atrocious thing the officer has witnessed during this war and evacuation?

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

6. Explain the subject for "Big Two-Hearted River: Part I," the story for Chapter 14.

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

8. How does Nick deal with his injury and fear of death in the Memoir of Chapter 6?

9. How does Hemingway showcase the classic theme of good vs. evil in the disparate stories of the Hungarian robbers and the Hungarian Communist?

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

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