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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. A U.S. ship called the Simpson is in a ______________ state.
(a) battle-ready
(b) friendly
(c) foreign
(d) stand down
2. In the Memoir for Chapter 4, what do the soldiers use for a barricade against the enemy?
(a) Sandbags
(b) Some old cars
(c) Wrought iron grating
(d) A decaying building
3. What is the soldier in the Memoir for Chapter 7 doing?
(a) Writing a letter
(b) Cleaning his gun
(c) Praying in a trench
(d) Smoking a cigarette
4. What is the location of the Story in Chapter 3?
(a) New Mexico
(b) Michigan
(c) Montana
(d) Maine
5. Who is Bugs?
(a) Nick's college roommate
(b) A gangster
(c) Ad's traveling companion
(d) A cartoon bunny
6. What do the sailors on the Simpson do to the evacuees every night?
(a) Provide first aid
(b) Give them food
(c) Run their searchlight up and down the crowd
(d) Yell at them to go home
7. Why are Nick and Marjorie together on this night?
(a) To set night lines for trout
(b) To go skinny dipping
(c) To go to a dance
(d) To elope
8. What does Boulton call Nick's father?
(a) Sport
(b) Dude
(c) Doc
(d) Bud
9. Who is the girl Nick has recently broken up with?
(a) Marjorie
(b) Marie
(c) Mary Ellen
(d) Mary
10. What is the relationship between Nick and his nurse?
(a) He wants to marry her
(b) It is very strained
(c) They do not get along
(d) They are cordial
11. What does Nick's father call the floating logs?
(a) A nuisance
(b) Kindling
(c) Flotsam
(d) Jetsam
12. How long has Nick's nurse stayed on night duty to care for him?
(a) 3 days
(b) 3 years
(c) 3 weeks
(d) 3 months
13. Who is Marjorie?
(a) Nick's mother
(b) Nick's sister
(c) Nick's girlfriend
(d) Nick's piano teacher
14. Nick's recovery in a hospital mirrors whose life?
(a) Faulkner's
(b) Capote's
(c) Hemingway's
(d) Fitzgerald's
15. Whose life does the character of Nick Adams parallel?
(a) William Faulkner
(b) T.S. Eliot
(c) F. Scott Fitzgerald
(d) Ernest Hemingway
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the location of the Memoir for Chapter 3?
2. What shocking event occurs this night for Nick, his father and Uncle George?
3. What profession does Nick's father have?
4. What makes Krebs' mother cry?
5. What does Bill's father say makes drunkards?
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