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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. Who escorts Hadley down the aisle?
(a) Her cousin.
(b) A family friend.
(c) No one.
(d) Her brother.

2. What did Hadley's father establish in St. Louis?
(a) A farm conglomerate.
(b) A successful steel mill.
(c) A group of clandestine meetings to run the city.
(d) A public library system.

3. Whom does everyone seem to gather around at the party?
(a) Charles Thompson.
(b) Ernest Hemingway.
(c) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(d) Gertrude Stein.

4. Ernest says he needs to be alone to ___________.
(a) Be happy.
(b) Write.
(c) Enjoy nature.
(d) Think.

5. What does Hadley impulsively do when she writes her first letter to Ernest?
(a) Kisses the envelope.
(b) Invites him to St. Louis.
(c) Includes a poems he wrote.
(d) Includes a lock of her hair.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are Kate and Kenley Smith?

2. What does Ernest ask Hadley about Rome?

3. How old is Hemingway?

4. How is Gertrude Stein characterized in A Paris Wife?

5. How does Ernest refer to his mother?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Hadley not want to go to the suffragette meeting with Fonnie?

3. Why is Hadley in mourning and why does she think the party will help?

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

5. What does Kate finally share with Hadley?

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

7. What does Ernest write about his family?

8. Where was Hadley when the novel opens and what is she doing?

9. What does Gertrude Stein say about the baby and the lost manuscripts?

10. Who is Hadley's father and what did he do?

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