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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 Krebs' mother allow him to do now?
(a) Move to a bigger city
(b) Bring a girl home for dinner
(c) Take the car in the evenings
(d) Get a job

2. What do the sailors on the Simpson do to the evacuees every night?
(a) Run their searchlight up and down the crowd
(b) Yell at them to go home
(c) Give them food
(d) Provide first aid

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

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

5. Where does Krebs plan to go to get a job?
(a) Boise
(b) Kansas City
(c) Wichita
(d) Des Moines

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Krebs want most of all?

2. Who is the unnamed narrator of the story?

3. What does Dick Boulton call the logs?

4. Who is Marjorie?

5. Why do Nick and Bill not go out in the boat?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is the significance of "The Three-Day Blow," the story's title?

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

7. Describe the character Peduzzi in the Story in Chapter 11.

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

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

10. What is the premise of the story "My Old Man" in Chapter 13?

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