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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. Why does Hemingway try to be kind to Lewis even though he dislikes him?

2. What does Stein call her companion?

3. Where does Fitzgerald meet Hemingway when they visit again in Paris?

4. What does Hemingway think when Walsh offers him a literary award?

5. Why does Hemingway leave the cafe Select?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Fitzgerald start to act when he is drunk after his summer trip?

2. What big secret does Fitzgerald confide in Hemingway about?

3. What does Hemingway do after hearing the exchange between Stein and Toklas?

4. How does Walsh die, and how does Hemingway try to help him at the end of his life?

5. How are things with Fitzgerald when he moves to the villa?

6. What causes the end of Hemingway's friendship with Stein?

7. Why does Shipman say Jean is already in trouble with the cafe he works at?

8. What does Hemingway love most about his friend, Ezra Pound?

9. What is the hardest writing project Hemingway ever completed, and where does he do it?

10. What does Dunning do when Hemingway brings him a jar of opium?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Anger was a vice that reared its ugly head a number of times in this book. What are some examples of this, and how was Hemingway's life altered because of these incidents?

Essay Topic 2

Alice was a person who was seen very little in this book, but whose presence made a big difference in Hemingway's life. How does she accomplish this? What are some ways that her presence, however brief, altered Hemingway's life? What would have happened differently if she had not been in the book at all?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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