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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Ernest and Hadley feel about their living quarters?
(a) Ernest loves them, and Hadley hates them.
(b) Hadley loves them, and Ernest hates them.
(c) They both hate the area.
(d) They both love the area.

2. Who does Ernest find to be not very bright?
(a) Grave.
(b) Hitler.
(c) Fitzgerald.
(d) Mussolini.

3. What does a reporter offer to do?
(a) Escort Hadley to Lusanne.
(b) Escort Hadley to the States.
(c) Send some of Ernest's work to Cosmopolitan.
(d) Escort Hadley to Versailles.

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

5. With whom does Ernest get into a fight?
(a) A British war correspondent.
(b) A British soldier.
(c) A French war correspondent.
(d) A Turkish ayatollah.

6. What was Ernest's occupation during the war in Italy?
(a) Ambulance driver.
(b) Correspondent for an independent magazine.
(c) Correspondent for the Times.
(d) Soldier on the front lines.

7. How was the visit to Gertrude Stein unusual?
(a) They meet in Gertrude's kitchen.
(b) They have to listen to a lecture by an obscure philologist.
(c) They are served bizarre finger food.
(d) Hadley chats with Gertrude's "wife," Alice while Ernest chats with Gertrude.

8. Where does Ernest's job send him?
(a) Turkey.
(b) Siberia.
(c) Greece.
(d) Russian.

9. What does Hadley lose on the train?
(a) A valise full of Ernest's manuscripts.
(b) Her purse.
(c) Her glasses.
(d) Some money.

10. How is Hadley when Ernest meets her the next morning?
(a) Fearful.
(b) Weeping.
(c) Agitated.
(d) Calm.

11. How does Ernest respond to Stein's suggestions?
(a) He is amused.
(b) He scorns it.
(c) He takes a little of the advice but not much.
(d) He embraces the advice wholeheartedly.

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

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

14. Why does Hadley have difficulty with what Ernest accuses her?
(a) She does not really know why she feels the way she does.
(b) She believes in monogamy.
(c) She thinks Ernest is very capable of having an affair.
(d) She does not like to be alone.

15. Who is Harrison Williams?
(a) Kate's best friend.
(b) A young man with whom Hadley had been in love.
(c) A man Hemingway met in Italy.
(d) Hemingway's best friend.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Hadley in mourning?

2. How does Ernest feel as he leaves on his assignment?

3. With what does Grace bore the family gathering to meet Hadley?

4. What does Lewis Galantiere encourage Ernest to do?

5. Who are Kate and Kenley Smith?

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