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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many children does Ernest have with Pauline?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 0.
(d) 4.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does Pauline say about Ernest that upsets Hadley?
(a) He is thinking about committing suicide.
(b) He wants a relationship with both of them.
(c) He plans to divorce Hadley to marry Pauline.
(d) He is in favor of moving to Arkansas.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ernest think of Zelda?

2. What did Hadley think the publication of The Torrents of Spring would do?

3. What does the narrator say about Ernest's career at this point?

4. Where is Hadley when she goes into labor?

5. Why does Pauline go back to the States?

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