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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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 embark upon a coast to coast tour of the States.
(d) They look for an apartment in the city.

4. Where does Ernest go when they return to Paris?
(a) Gerald's studio.
(b) F. Scott Fitzgerald's home.
(c) A separate motel from Hadley.
(d) Gertrude Stein's home.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What proofs does Ernest review?

2. What are two adjectives describing Pauline?

3. Where do the Hemingways go for a nightcap?

4. Where do Dorothy and Ezra live most of the year?

5. How does Ernest behave on their vacation?

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