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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the year at the opening to the novel?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1949.
(d) 1901.

2. What does a reporter offer to do?
(a) Escort Hadley to Lusanne.
(b) Escort Hadley to Versailles.
(c) Send some of Ernest's work to Cosmopolitan.
(d) Escort Hadley to the States.

3. Where does Ernest say he might move?
(a) New York.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Paris.
(d) Rome.

4. Why does Anderson write to Ezra Pound, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein?
(a) To introduce Hemingway.
(b) To ask them to teach Hemingway the ropes.
(c) To tell them that Hemingway probably has no talent.
(d) To share gossip.

5. What does Stein recommend to Ernest regarding his writing?
(a) Use less obscure vocabulary.
(b) Use more detailed scenes.
(c) Use simple, clear language like that in his poems.
(d) Use more complex writing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Ernest want to go to Spain?

2. What does Hadley impulsively do when she writes her first letter to Ernest?

3. What is wrong with Ernest when he arrives back in Paris?

4. What does Ernest recall about Kate?

5. What does Hadley think will help take her mind off her grief?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the Hemingway's outing with the Pounds.

2. How does Ernest have a brief affair and what does he think of concerning Hadley and the affair?

3. What does Kate finally share with Hadley?

4. What does Ernest recall about an incident with Kate?

5. What did Hadley and her sister Fonnie do in 1904?

6. What is the setting for Hadley and Ernest's first lovemaking?

7. What did Hadley learn about Ernest when she met him the next morning in the kitchen?

8. How does Ernest's writing change after his visit to Stein?

9. What does Ernest believe about Hadley's pregnancy in connection with the lost manuscripts?

10. Why does Ernest go back to Paris briefly?

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