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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where do Ernest, Hadley and Bumby go on vacation?
(a) Back to the Midwest in the United States.
(b) To Southern Italy.
(c) To St. Louis to see Ernest's dying father.
(d) A ski trip to the Austrian Alps.

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

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

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

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

8. Whom does Hadley marry?
(a) She never marries.
(b) Paul Mowrer.
(c) Steven Mowrerey.
(d) Her high school sweetheart.

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

10. What does Hadley finally decide?
(a) She may try once more if Ernest comes to the United States and asks her.
(b) Her marriage is over for good.
(c) Ernest never loved her.
(d) Bumby would be harmed to be raised with Pauline in the household.

11. Who did the characters in Ernest's latest novel represent?
(a) Characters from some of his favorite novels.
(b) Ernest's friends in Paris.
(c) No one because Ernest went to great pains not to represent any of his family or friends.
(d) Ernest's childhood school chums.

12. What types of assignments is Ernest often given?
(a) Mundane matters.
(b) Months long.
(c) Quick, one or two hour interviews.
(d) Overnight.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hadley figure out?

2. What does Ernest think of Zelda?

3. Who called Hadley to tell her of Ernest's death?

4. What proofs does Ernest review?

5. When do Hadley and Bumby sail for the States?

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