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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To get to Switzerland, Frederic and Catherine have to:
(a) drift downriver for two days
(b) drive 40 miles on the highway
(c) row all night
(d) ride two days to the border

2. Frederic and Catherine obtain ________ at the border town.
(a) a car
(b) food
(c) directions
(d) visas

3. Count Greffi provides Frederic with this advice about growing older.
(a) People care about growing wise
(b) People gain wisdom through great care
(c) People do not grow wiser, they grow more careful
(d) People grow more wary as they grow wiser

4. Frederic and the Count engage in a meaningful discussion about:
(a) love and life lessons
(b) books and death
(c) life and death
(d) the war and newspapers

5. Frederic and Catherine's reunion is_______ for the couple.
(a) confusing
(b) bittersweet
(c) disheartening
(d) joyful

6. Hemingway's journalist writing style changes slightly in Chapter 32 to be more:
(a) humorous
(b) curt
(c) immature
(d) expressive

7. What positive symbol emerges again in Chapter 28?
(a) rain
(b) a rainbow
(c) sunshine
(d) a train

8. What is one of the biggest obstacles slowing the men during the massive retreat to Udine?
(a) lack of food
(b) volume of people
(c) enemy attacks
(d) high morale of the troops

9. Once on foot, where do the women head?
(a) with Frederic's group
(b) back to the farmhouse
(c) to bury the dead soldier
(d) to the highway

10. In Chapter 28, it is evident Frederic misses Catherine because:
(a) He has a dream about her.
(b) He tries to get back to her.
(c) He writes her many letters.
(d) He cries over her.

11. Catherine and Frederic spend the days:
(a) studying Swiss culture
(b) reading
(c) tending to their home chores
(d) taking walks and dining

12. When Frederic returns from lunch, Catherine assures him. . .
(a) she cannot take any more pain.
(b) she will not die.
(c) the baby will be a boy.
(d) they can take the baby back to America.

13. Frederic finally finds a ___________ on which to travel.
(a) train
(b) bicylce
(c) horse
(d) convoy

14. What is the cargo of the car in which Frederic has stowed away?
(a) tires
(b) food
(c) medical supplies
(d) guns

15. Catherine's thoughts on marriage are that. . .
(a) she does not believe in marriage.
(b) she will not get married while she is pregnant.
(c) she wants to get married before the baby comes.
(d) she does not love Frederic enough to marry him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Catherine's awareness of the severity of the situation is apparent when she comments how life _______________ if she were not pregnant:

2. In actuality, Aymo is killed by:

3. At the end of Chapter 41, Catherine dies. . .

4. How does Frederic feel about patriotism?

5. In Chapter 40, Hemingway's writing about Catherine's pregnancy seems to foreshadow __________ in Catherine and Frederic's future.

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