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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13 through 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How was the visit to Gertrude Stein unusual?
(a) They are served bizarre finger food.
(b) They meet in Gertrude's kitchen.
(c) Hadley chats with Gertrude's "wife," Alice while Ernest chats with Gertrude.
(d) They have to listen to a lecture by an obscure philologist.

2. What did Hadley's father establish in St. Louis?
(a) A successful steel mill.
(b) A farm conglomerate.
(c) A public library system.
(d) A group of clandestine meetings to run the city.

3. What does Hadley think will help take her mind off her grief?
(a) Having a drink and dancing a little.
(b) Going to Europe.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Writing a book about her mother.

4. How is Gertrude Stein characterized in A Paris Wife?
(a) As a lesbian.
(b) As a psuedo-intellectual.
(c) As a mediocre writer.
(d) As somewhat of a passive person.

5. What is significant about the place where Ernest is going to marry Hadley?
(a) Ernest first decided to become a writer at that place.
(b) It is just a mile from where he had a run-in with Kate.
(c) Ernest's father proposed to Ernest's mother there.
(d) Nothing is significant about the place.

Short Answer Questions

1. What surprises Kate when she walks into the kitchen of her friends the next morning?

2. On what do the Hemingways decide to splurge?

3. From whom does Ernest receive an invitation?

4. Where do the Hemingways go that reminds Ernest of his war wounds?

5. What did Kate do when she and Ernest were swimming with friends?

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