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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pauline encourage Hadley to do?
(a) Write music.
(b) Study painting.
(c) Take up the piano again.
(d) Get a nanny for Bumby so she's have more time.

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

3. Of what is Zelda jealous?
(a) Hadley.
(b) The attention Scott and Ernest pay Sarah.
(c) Hadley having a baby.
(d) Pauline.

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

5. What does Ernest say when Hadley asks about a possible move?
(a) He has no intention of leaving their home in Paris.
(b) He wants to move alone.
(c) To try it for awhile to see if it works out.
(d) Pauline will not be invited along.

6. What surprises Hadley about Ernest's new book?
(a) It was completed so quickly.
(b) It is more poignant than his usual writing.
(c) It is very short.
(d) It doesn't include her.

7. What happens when Ernest walks Pauline home one day?
(a) They kiss.
(b) They discuss Ernest's relationship with Hadley.
(c) They argue.
(d) They discuss Ernest's next book.

8. What do Ernest and Pauline do when they meet by chance?
(a) Go to Pauline's and make love.
(b) Vow not to see each other anymore.
(c) Argue again.
(d) Discuss Hadley.

9. About what does Ernest worry while on vacation?
(a) Money.
(b) Bumby getting sick.
(c) His career.
(d) His father.

10. Where do Dorothy and Ezra live most of the year?
(a) In Rapallo.
(b) In St. Moritz.
(c) In London.
(d) In Bern.

11. Who called Hadley to tell her of Ernest's death?
(a) Chuck.
(b) Ernest's sister.
(c) Mary.
(d) Bumby.

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

13. What annoys Ernest about Hadley's conversation?
(a) It is often more insightful than his own.
(b) It interrupts his train of thought.
(c) She is long winded.
(d) It is trivial.

14. What is the setting of Ernest's new book?
(a) Lisesse.
(b) Pamplona.
(c) Detchum.
(d) Paris.

15. What are two adjectives describing Pauline?
(a) A spendthrift and temperamental.
(b) Candid and sensible.
(c) Moody and generous.
(d) Kind and generous.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Ernest see more of back in Paris?

2. Where do the Hemingways go for a nightcap?

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

4. What makes Hadley realize she could not continue to live as she has been living?

5. What is Ernest doing more frequently?

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