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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. Where is the young couple sitting in "A Sea Change"?

2. Who does Jack lose his last match to?

3. Who does Nick go skiing with?

4. How many Indian men does Nick see passed out on the 4th of July?

5. Where is the peasant's wife stored after she dies?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the young couple reveal to the older American woman as the train stops?

2. What is Nick doing when he meets Adolph Francis and Bugs?

3. Why is Guy's car stopped as he travels through Italy, and what does he have to do to continue?

4. How does the American couple feel about the trip Peduzzi takes them on, and why?

5. What does Nick's father tell him on the 4th of July, and how does Nick respond?

6. What happens on the first day of Francis Macomber's hunting trip?

7. What does Nick tell Anderson, and how does Anderson respond?

8. Why is Harold's mother worried about him when he returns from the war, and what does she have him do?

9. What are the officers in "In Another Country" doing in Milan?

10. What does the American wife do when she hears a cat caught in the rain?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There were many secrets made, kept, and told in these stories. What are some of these stories, and what significance do those secrets have on the plots they are involved in?

Essay Topic 2

Sexuality is a theme presented in a number of these stories, and it is manifested in a number of different ways. Choose a few of these instances, and compare and contrast them. How are they different in their manifestations of this sensitive theme?

Essay Topic 3

Hemingway includes some ingenious forms of irony in these stories. What are some of these examples, and how does their ironic nature affect the plot of the stories they are included in?

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