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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the narrator doing in the Memoir?

4. What has happened to Nick in the Memoir of Chapter 6?

5. Who is Nick's nurse in Padua?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the scenario of the Memoir in Chapter 10?

2. How does Hemingway contrast the passive lives of Mr. and Mrs. Elliot with the passion of the young bullfighter?

3. Even though Nick initiated the break up with Marjorie, he is still overcome with emotion. How does Hemingway indicate this to the reader?

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

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

6. Explain how the young matador shows disrespect to the older matadors.

7. What is the scenario of bullfighting in the Memoir of Chapter 9?

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

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

10. What is the significance of the character, Nick Adams, introduced in this chapter?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Hemingway writes about women giving birth or wanting a child in several of the stories. What is the significance of the birth theme to these stories? In literature in general?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the format of the book. What is the purpose of the Memoirs? What is the purpose of the Stories? Why do some of the Memoirs relate to the associated Stories and some do not?

Essay Topic 3

War is a recurring theme in the Memoirs and in some of the Stories in the book. How are killing and war perceived by the young men when it seems like sport at first? How do the perceptions change when they are seriously wounded, as Nick is? How do they manage the aftermath of war and the personal toll it takes on them?

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