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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lewis Galantiere encourage Ernest to do?
(a) Send his latest story to a French publisher.
(b) Send off his letters of introduction.
(c) Write a long book and not short stories.
(d) Send his latest story to an English publisher.

2. What is Ernest's father's occupation?
(a) Lawyer.
(b) Obstetrician.
(c) Professor.
(d) Sea captain.

3. How old is Hemingway?
(a) 31.
(b) 21.
(c) 18.
(d) 27.

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

5. Why does Anderson write to Ezra Pound, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein?
(a) To share gossip.
(b) To ask them to teach Hemingway the ropes.
(c) To tell them that Hemingway probably has no talent.
(d) To introduce Hemingway.

6. How does Hadley feel about Ernest's new book?
(a) Hates it.
(b) Indifference.
(c) Pleased.
(d) Appalled.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. Sherwood Anderson recommends that ________________.
(a) Ernest go to New York to work on his craft.
(b) Ernest come and live near Anderson.
(c) Ernest go to Paris to work on his craft.
(d) Ernest divorce and devote himself to his work.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who fascinates Hadley?

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

3. What does Hadley tell another passenger about what she lost?

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

5. Why is Hadley in mourning?

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