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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does everyone seem to gather around at the party?
(a) Ernest Hemingway.
(b) Charles Thompson.
(c) Gertrude Stein.
(d) F. Scott Fitzgerald.

2. What did Kate do when she and Ernest were swimming with friends?
(a) Tried to keep Ernest away from another woman.
(b) Almost drowned Ernest.
(c) Exposed her breast to him.
(d) Almost drowned.

3. What is Hadley hoping to do at the party?
(a) She has no particular hopes.
(b) Meet someone who wants to be a traveling companion.
(c) Dance with Hemingway again.
(d) Interview one of its famous attendees.

4. What is Hadley's major objection to Ernest's assignment?
(a) His emotional state is too fragile for the work.
(b) It is dangerous.
(c) It is so far away from where they are living.
(d) He might get lonely and cheat on her.

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

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

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

8. Why does Hadley not do what Ernest wants?
(a) She has another invitation.
(b) She is very ill.
(c) She has other plans.
(d) She is angry with him.

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

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

11. What is a first for Ernest on this assignment?
(a) The first time he's been on the front lines of a conflict.
(b) The first time he's worked with a female war correspondent.
(c) The first time he has not spoken the language of the combatants.
(d) The first time he's been near war since he was wounded.

12. What do the train officials tell Hadley?
(a) There was little hope of Hadley recovering the bag.
(b) Nothing.
(c) They will not allow anyone to disembark without searching them.
(d) They will loan her some money to replace what was stolen.

13. What does Ernest recall about Kate?
(a) She was very mean and degrading to him.
(b) An incident that caused tension between Ernest and Kate.
(c) She tried to get her brother to not associate with Ernest.
(d) She spurned his advances.

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

15. What dismays Hadley about the Pound's marriage?
(a) Nothing.
(b) It was open, and both had other lovers.
(c) Their relationship is all consuming.
(d) Dorothy is Ezra's equal in all ways.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the year at the opening to the novel?

2. How does Hadley respond to Ernest's assignment?

3. How does Ernest feel about Paris?

4. How was the visit to Gertrude Stein unusual?

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

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