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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who do Ernest and Hadley occasionally spot on the streets?
(a) Pablo Picasso.
(b) James Joyce.
(c) Alice B. Toklas.
(d) Zora Neal Hurston.

2. What is becoming less frequent?
(a) Ernest's bouts of maleria.
(b) Hadley's brother's bouts of maleria.
(c) Ernest's letters to Hadley.
(d) Fonnie's objections.

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

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

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

6. Who is Agnes?
(a) A nurse in England.
(b) Hadley's cousin.
(c) A nurse in Italy.
(d) Ernest's cousin.

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

8. Who escorts Hadley down the aisle?
(a) Her brother.
(b) No one.
(c) Her cousin.
(d) A family friend.

9. What does Hadley receive from Ernest Hemingway that stuns her?
(a) A bunch of roses.
(b) A poem.
(c) A special delivery letter.
(d) A photograph.

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

11. What does Hadley not mention to Fonnie when she returns to St. Louis?
(a) Her desire to move to New York.
(b) Her possible pregnancy.
(c) Her depression.
(d) Ernest.

12. Where does Ernest say he might move?
(a) Paris.
(b) Rome.
(c) New York.
(d) Berlin.

13. How does Ernest feel as he leaves on his assignment?
(a) Sorry that they fought.
(b) Resentful.
(c) Hurt and angry.
(d) Sad.

14. Whom does Ezra excoriate when the Hemingways are out with them?
(a) The Turks.
(b) The Midwest of the United States.
(c) The Russian Revolution.
(d) The Greek.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What has been happening for three years in the area of increased conflicts?

2. Whom does everyone seem to gather around at the party?

3. What did Hadley's mother say about a wife who likes sex?

4. What does a reporter offer to do?

5. What does Ernest feel Hadley tries to trick him into doing?

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