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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. Who is Agnes von Kurowsky?
(a) The wife of Hemingway's sergeant
(b) The public relations rep for a publishing company
(c) Hemingway's editor
(d) The nurse with whom Hemingway has an affair

2. What do the evacuees do every night at midnight?
(a) Cry
(b) Sleep
(c) Sing
(d) Scream

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

4. What has Marjorie brought along tonight?
(a) Homework
(b) A picnic lunch
(c) A transistor radio
(d) A bottle of champagne

5. Which book of Hemingway's will devote more time to his war hospital recovery?
(a) A Farewell to Arms
(b) To Have and Have Not
(c) For Whom the Bell Tolls
(d) The Sun Also Rises

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the nature of the problem with which Nick's father can assist?

2. Where did Bugs meet Ad?

3. What do Nick and his nurse do before he returns to the front lines?

4. Who is the girl Nick has recently broken up with?

5. Which one of Nick's friends asks about Marjorie?

Short Essay Questions

1. What parallels does Hemingway draw between the three bullfighters and Mr. and Mrs. Elliot and her lover?

2. Explain the symbolism of the disassembled fishing rods carried by the young American wife.

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

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

5. Explain how the young matador shows disrespect to the older matadors.

6. Explain why the mountain is a metaphor in the story "Cross-Country Snow" in Chapter 12.

7. How does Hemingway use dialogue to show the crumbling state of the young couple's marriage?

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

9. What is the topic of the Memoir for Chapter 1?

10. Describe the setting for the Story in Chapter 10, "Cat in the Rain."

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