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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Ernest feel about Pauline and Hadley?
(a) He loves Hadley, but he's attracted to Pauline.
(b) He thinks he deserves neither woman.
(c) He loves them both.
(d) He thinks both women are trying to manipulate him.

3. What is Ernest's reaction to Hadley's confronting him?
(a) He slaps her.
(b) He lies.
(c) He tells her everything.
(d) He refuses to answer her.

4. Whom of the women Hadley is meeting does she start liking?
(a) Pauline.
(b) Jinny.
(c) Kitty.
(d) Duff.

5. Why is Ernest demoted?
(a) For writing a biased slant on a situation.
(b) For not filing his report before going to the hospital.
(c) For arguing with his copy editor.
(d) For refusing a long out-of-town assignment.

6. What does Pauline do one day when Hadley and Ernest were napping?
(a) Takes Bumby for a walk.
(b) Goes through their personal writings.
(c) Comes in and wakes them to confront them.
(d) Joins them in the bed.

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

8. What does Ernest tell Hadley about Pauline after Pauline returns to the States?
(a) Pauline is quite ill.
(b) Pauline was falling apart over being separated from Ernest.
(c) Pauline is suicidal.
(d) Pauline is pregnant.

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

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

11. Why does Pauline come to Paris?
(a) For Vogue.
(b) To break into the fashion industry.
(c) For her brother.
(d) To accompany and chaperone her younger sister.

12. Why does Ernest go to New York?
(a) To visit his ill mother.
(b) To interview other possible publishing companies.
(c) To visit his ill father.
(d) To give a pitch for his book in person.

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

14. What did Hadley think the publication of The Torrents of Spring would do?
(a) Earn them enough to move to a larger place.
(b) Earn enough money for a live-in nanny.
(c) Enable Hadley to study painting with a master.
(d) Destroy Ernest's relationship with Sherwood Anderson.

15. Where does Hadley suspect Ernest is meeting Pauline?
(a) Hadley does not think Ernest is meeting with Pauline.
(b) In a motel near the villa.
(c) In an office room he rented.
(d) In Pauline's motel room.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are two adjectives describing Pauline?

2. What does the author say remained in Ernest?

3. What does Ernest tell Hadley when he is writing her memoirs?

4. Where do Ernest and Hadley move?

5. Where do Ernest, Hadley and Bumby go on vacation?

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