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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is significant about the place where Ernest is going to marry Hadley?
(a) Nothing is significant about the place.
(b) Ernest's father proposed to Ernest's mother there.
(c) Ernest first decided to become a writer at that place.
(d) It is just a mile from where he had a run-in with Kate.

2. What is the first place where Ernest and Hadley live like?
(a) Luxurious.
(b) Cramped.
(c) Sparton.
(d) Spacious.

3. What happened in St. Louis in 1904?
(a) An epidemic.
(b) A huge fire.
(c) World's Fair.
(d) A growth spurt.

4. Whom does Hadley feel guilty about while she is in Chicago?
(a) Her sister Fonnie.
(b) Kate.
(c) Her brother was ill in St. Louis and she does not return to nurse him.
(d) Her sister Dorothea.

5. What does Stein recommend to Ernest regarding his writing?
(a) Use simple, clear language like that in his poems.
(b) Use more detailed scenes.
(c) Use more complex writing.
(d) Use less obscure vocabulary.

6. What does Ernest feel Hadley tries to trick him into doing?
(a) Returning to the States.
(b) Taking on a new job.
(c) Forget writing.
(d) Having a baby.

7. What sort of accusations are circulated about a small newspaper where Ernest works?
(a) The paper lacked good journalism.
(b) The paper was involved in unethical activities.
(c) The paper was anti-American.
(d) The paper was run by a Communist.

8. What does Hadley impulsively do when she writes her first letter to Ernest?
(a) Includes a lock of her hair.
(b) Includes a poems he wrote.
(c) Invites him to St. Louis.
(d) Kisses the envelope.

9. For whom does Hadley feel an immediately liking?
(a) Dorothy Pound.
(b) Pablo Picasso.
(c) T. S. Eliot.
(d) Alice B. Toklas.

10. What surprises Kate when she walks into the kitchen of her friends the next morning?
(a) F. Scott Fitzgerald is there.
(b) The kitchen is a wreck.
(c) There is a note saying everyone had already left for the day.
(d) Ernest Hemingway is there.

11. What crushes Hadley about something Ernest tells her?
(a) He is still in love with another woman.
(b) He is dating another woman.
(c) He is married and trying to obtain a divorce.
(d) He is moving to Austria for a year.

12. How does Ernest feel about Paris?
(a) He hates it.
(b) He has no feelings one way or the other.
(c) He is totally in love with it.
(d) He knows it's good for his career to be there.

13. For what organization is Ernest working?
(a) The New York Times.
(b) The London Times.
(c) The Toronto Star.
(d) The Paris Review.

14. Ernest's expression sometimes reminds Hadley of ______________.
(a) Nothing.
(b) Her father's expression.
(c) Her brother when he was young.
(d) A lost puppy.

15. What does Hadley suspect about Kate?
(a) She hopes to be involved with Ernest.
(b) She is divorcing her husband.
(c) She is pregnant.
(d) She had been involved at one time with Ernest.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Ernest find to be not very bright?

2. What is Hadley hoping to do at the party?

3. What does Lewis Galantiere encourage Ernest to do?

4. Who agrees to send some of Ernest's poetry to some contacts?

5. What dismays Hadley about the Pound's marriage?

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