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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. Who do Nick and his friends pass on their way home?

2. What stereotype about the Indians does the author show?

3. In what town did Nick grow up?

4. What is the condition of the baby's father?

5. Who is Ad Francis?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the editor's main point about the book as stated in the Preface?

2. How does Hemingway portray the black man, Bugs, in a more positive light than he did with the Indians in other stories?

3. Despite his being older, what fear still haunts Nick?

4. Does Hemingway give a clear reason for Nick's activity in this story?

5. Where is Nick in this story and what is his interaction with a disgruntled fellow soldier?

6. What does Nick's father tell his wife about the fight with the other man over the wood?

7. Who does Nick meet at the train station with his friend, Tom?

8. How has Nick transitioned in this section?

9. What is ostensibly missing from this story?

10. What is the them in this story?

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 and in literature in general?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the format of the book. What is the purpose of the Preface? What is the purpose of the Stories? What is the purpose of including unfinished and unpublished work?

Essay Topic 3

Why did Hemingway choose to use the omniscient narrator perspective for the stories? What does this point of view entail? What do you know about the characters and the plot lines that you would not know from a different point of view?

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