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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. In what year does the story for Chapter 7 take place?

2. What does Ad tell Nick about himself?

3. What does Ad ask Nick to give him?

4. What war does the narrator mention in the memoir for Chapter 1?

5. What does Krebs want most of all?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are the circumstances of the "On the Quai at Smyrna" story?

3. What is the source of the conflict between Nick's father and one of the loggers?

4. Why does Krebs have to resort to lying in order to make his military service seem more important when he returns home?

5. Describe the format of this book.

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

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

8. Explain the significance of the saying, "There are no atheists in foxholes" as it relates to the Memoir for Chapter 7.

9. Explain the significance of the bullfighting scenario in the Memoir of Chapter 9.

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

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

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 3

Develop a character study of Agnes von Kurowsky. Why is she important to Nick? Is it because she is caring for his physical wounds? Would Nick have fallen in love with Agnes if they had met in different circumstances? Explain.

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