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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Ernest doing more frequently?
(a) Talking to himself.
(b) Going out with the boys.
(c) Locking himself in his office.
(d) Drinking.

2. What does Ernest suggest that he and Hadley should do?
(a) Move to Austria.
(b) Move further away from their Paris friends.
(c) Get drunk.
(d) Move back to the States.

3. What does Hadley do with Ernest's last letter?
(a) Memorizes it.
(b) Makes a boat of it and sails it off into the ocean.
(c) Burns it.
(d) Sends it back unread.

4. What do Ernest and Hadley do when the lease on the villa ends?
(a) Make plans to move back to the States.
(b) Return to Paris.
(c) Renew the lease on the villa.
(d) Rent two rooms in a hotel.

5. Where is Hadley when she goes into labor?
(a) A dinner party.
(b) The beach.
(c) In Manhatten.
(d) Her sister's house.

6. What does Hadley tell Ernest when he returns from walking?
(a) She forgives him if he'll give up Pauline.
(b) She wants to know how to owrk things out.
(c) She wants him to seek counseling.
(d) He does not want him there.

7. What is the Hemingways' son's name?
(a) Jack Ernest Hemingway.
(b) Joseph Hadley Hemingway.
(c) Richard Hadley Hemingway.
(d) John Hadley Hemingway.

8. Where do Hadley and Pauline often bicycle?
(a) On a seaside road.
(b) They do not bicycle because Pauline hates biking.
(c) Around a friend's country estate.
(d) At local vineyards.

9. What does Ernest write and ask Hadley?
(a) If she wants to start fresh somewhere else.
(b) If she is leaving him.
(c) If she will come to Madrid to meet him.
(d) If she will give him another chance.

10. Who becomes the Hemingway's son's godmother?
(a) Ezra Pound.
(b) Gertrude Stein.
(c) Dorothy Pound.
(d) Zelda Fitzgerald.

11. Hadley makes a deal with Ernest that she will give him a divorce if he still wants Pauline after sending her away for ______________.
(a) 1 month.
(b) 1 year.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 100 days.

12. Where does Pauline suggest the Hemingways move with her?
(a) To Arkansas.
(b) To a larger villa in Italy.
(c) To New York.
(d) To her large flat in Paris.

13. Why does Ernest decide to work extra hard?
(a) To earn passage to Paris.
(b) So Hadley does not have to suffer in the cold Canada winters.
(c) To prove to Hadley he can support her.
(d) To have good things for his son.

14. What does Hadley and Bumby do when they arrive in New York?
(a) They immediately take a train for St. Louis.
(b) Hadley takes Bumby to visit her sister.
(c) They look for an apartment in the city.
(d) They embark upon a coast to coast tour of the States.

15. Whom does Ernest suggest Hadley invite on their Christmas vacation?
(a) No one.
(b) Kitty.
(c) Pauline.
(d) Jenny.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Ernest meet Pauline by chance one day?

2. What news does Ernest receive while on vacation that elates him?

3. What is Ernest's reaction to Hadley's confronting him?

4. What are two adjectives describing Pauline?

5. What does Pauline say about Ernest that upsets Hadley?

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