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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 do when he learns that his mother wants to see him?
(a) Goes fishing
(b) Takes the boat out onto the lake
(c) Goes on a walk with his father
(d) Takes the car into town

2. Who else is attempting to leave Smyrna?
(a) Russian immigrants
(b) U.S. tourists
(c) Greek civilians
(d) Romanian gypsies

3. What is the location of the Memoir for Chapter 3?
(a) South Africa
(b) Wisconsin
(c) Germany
(d) France

4. What is a woman doing on a cart?
(a) Holding a suitcase
(b) Singing
(c) Polishing a gun
(d) Giving birth

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which book of Hemingway's will devote more time to his war hospital recovery?

2. What does Nick say about his father?

3. What do Nick, his father and Uncle George deal with at the Indian camp?

4. What makes Krebs' mother cry?

5. Who is Dick Boulton?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How do Nick's war wound and recovery experience mirror Hemingway's own life?

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

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