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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the attitude of the narrator telling the story?
(a) Sympathetic
(b) Angry
(c) Amused
(d) Callous

2. What does Nick say is no longer any fun?
(a) Love
(b) Skinny dipping
(c) Fishing
(d) Baseball

3. Where does Nick find Bill?
(a) In town
(b) At the library
(c) At school
(d) At his father's cottage

4. Who is Ad Francis?
(a) A Wall Street executive
(b) A former prizefighter
(c) An author
(d) A minister

5. What does Krebs tell about the war?
(a) Nothing
(b) Occasional stories
(c) Lies
(d) His actual experiences

Short Answer Questions

1. What feeling does Nick have on this morning?

2. What does Bugs do to calm Ad down?

3. Why does Ad get mad at Nick?

4. Why are Nick and Marjorie together on this night?

5. About what do Nick and Bill agree is better than baseball?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Hemingway end the story on a more hopeful note than how it began?

2. How does the story's setting also serve as a metaphor?

3. Explain the significance of the saying, "There are no atheists in foxholes" as it relates to the Memoir for Chapter 7.

4. What is the source of the conflict between Nick's father and one of the loggers?

5. What is the scenario for the story in Chapter 2?

6. How does Nick deal with his injury and fear of death in the Memoir of Chapter 6?

7. Explain the scenario of the Memoir of Chapter 8.

8. Explain the classic father-son relationship as it plays out at the end of this story.

9. Who is the narrator of the story and why is he in Turkey?

10. Why is Krebs short-tempered with his mother and her plans for his new life?

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