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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. What does Bugs do to calm Ad down?

2. What is meant by "riding the rails?"

3. What does Nick say is no longer any fun?

4. What is the setting for the Memoir of Chapter 2?

5. What is the soldier in the Memoir for Chapter 7 doing?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Explain why the mountain is a metaphor in the story "Cross-Country Snow" in Chapter 12.

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

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

5. What are the main themes of the story which will become important throughout the entire book?

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

7. Explain the significance of the wet, dead leaves affixed to the bodies of the condemned men in the Memoir for Chapter 5.

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

9. Describe the format of this book.

10. What is the topic of the Memoir for Chapter 1?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the story in Chapter 10, "Cat in the Rain," the cat can represent many things for the American wife. What does the cat symbolize? Why does the cat elude her before she can catch it? Why does the hotel keeper have a cat sent to her room?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

In the story in Chapter 4, "The Three-Day Blow," Nick likens his behavior of breaking up with Marjorie to the storms that are called Three-Day Blows. What is meant by a Three-Day Blow? Why does Nick compare his actions to it? Is he being reasonable or just trying to justify his behavior?

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