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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the current occupation of the man who interrupts Hemingway at the cafe?

2. What word does the man who interrupts Hemingway use to describe Hemingway's writing?

3. How many month's of savings does Hemingway's wife lose on a horse race?

4. How does Hemingway feel when his writing gets interrupted?

5. When does Hemingway stop writing for the day?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Hemingway feel about Stein's writing?

2. Where do many of Hemingway's stories take place, and why?

3. How do Hemingway and his wife respond to the news of his lost writings?

4. How does Hemingway say Sylvia Beach treated him?

5. Why does Hemingway say he does not fish himself?

6. What does Hemingway's wife say when she hears about the Shakespeare's company?

7. What does Hemingway do to make his stories more poetic?

8. How does Hemingway describe the fishermen along the Seine?

9. What did Hemingway say would make his story about the interrupter more interesting?

10. What does Hemingway carry with him at all times for luck?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Which person did you relate with the most in this book? Why is this? How did this person change throughout the book?

Essay Topic 2

Friendship is something that was very important to Hemingway in his life. Where are some places that friendship appears, and how do the people touched by it react? How do certain friendships change over the course of the book, and what causes these changes?

Essay Topic 3

What happens when Fitzgerald dies, and what significance does this have on Hemingway's life? Who is involved in the tragedy there, and what does this monumental event mean to Hemingway?

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