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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Ernest want to go to Spain?
(a) He does not ever want to go to Spain.
(b) To witness some bullfighting.
(c) To revisit some places he had been.
(d) To check out the unrest there.

2. Whom does Ernest write that bothers Hadley?
(a) Agnes.
(b) His mother.
(c) Kate.
(d) His former girlfriend.

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

4. Of what does Ernest accuse Hadley?
(a) Not being supportive of his writing.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Having an affair.
(d) Being jealous of every woman.

5. How does Hadley respond to Ernest's assignment?
(a) She is proud of his contribution to the war effort.
(b) She knows he has to do it to help support them.
(c) She is fearful for his safety.
(d) She asks him not to go.

6. Where is there news of increased conflicts?
(a) Russia.
(b) Austria.
(c) Italy.
(d) Turkey.

7. For whom is Hemingway writing copy?
(a) The New York Times.
(b) Firestone Tires.
(c) Carnegie Steel.
(d) The Chicago Tribune.

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

9. Who visited the Hemingways for Christmas?
(a) Chink.
(b) Hadley's sister.
(c) Ernest's brother.
(d) Ernest's parents.

10. What did Hadley's mother say about a wife who likes sex?
(a) She would be pregnant all the time.
(b) She would be a joy to her husband.
(c) She was the same as a prostitute.
(d) She would have her heart broken.

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

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

13. How is Gertrude Stein characterized in A Paris Wife?
(a) As a psuedo-intellectual.
(b) As somewhat of a passive person.
(c) As a mediocre writer.
(d) As a lesbian.

14. Where does Ernest go to report on an economic conference?
(a) Berlin.
(b) London.
(c) Rome.
(d) Genoa.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What surprises Kate when she walks into the kitchen of her friends the next morning?

2. What did Kate do when she and Ernest were swimming with friends?

3. Ernest says he needs to be alone to ___________.

4. Why does Anderson write to Ezra Pound, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein?

5. From whom does Ernest receive an invitation?

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