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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ernest feel about Paris?
(a) He hates it.
(b) He knows it's good for his career to be there.
(c) He is totally in love with it.
(d) He has no feelings one way or the other.

2. Who agrees to send some of Ernest's poetry to some contacts?
(a) Stein.
(b) Pound.
(c) Joyce.
(d) No one.

3. Who visited the Hemingways for Christmas?
(a) Ernest's brother.
(b) Hadley's sister.
(c) Chink.
(d) Ernest's parents.

4. What is Hadley's major objection to Ernest's assignment?
(a) His emotional state is too fragile for the work.
(b) He might get lonely and cheat on her.
(c) It is dangerous.
(d) It is so far away from where they are living.

5. What does Ernest recall about Kate?
(a) She was very mean and degrading to him.
(b) She spurned his advances.
(c) An incident that caused tension between Ernest and Kate.
(d) She tried to get her brother to not associate with Ernest.

6. How does Hadley feel about Ernest's new book?
(a) Indifference.
(b) Hates it.
(c) Pleased.
(d) Appalled.

7. Why is Hadley in mourning?
(a) Her father has just died.
(b) Her brother has just died.
(c) Her mother has just died.
(d) She just miscarried.

8. What did Hadley leave in Paris that infuriated Ernest?
(a) Her checkbook.
(b) Her bank book.
(c) A letter to a publisher that Ernest needed.
(d) Her diaphragm.

9. Of what is Ernest more frightened than getting married?
(a) Being humiliated.
(b) Not becoming a successful writer.
(c) Being alone.
(d) Illness.

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

11. From whom does Ernest receive an invitation?
(a) Pablo Picasso.
(b) Gertrude Stein.
(c) Emmanual Kant.
(d) Ezra Pound.

12. Why does Ernest insist upon going back to Paris?
(a) To hire a private investigator.
(b) To get some of the copies of his works out of a safety deposit box.
(c) To file a complaint with the French rail administration.
(d) To look in the apartment to see if any of his work is still there.

13. What is significant about the place where Ernest is going to marry Hadley?
(a) Nothing is significant about the 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) Ernest first decided to become a writer at that place.

14. For what organization is Ernest working?
(a) The London Times.
(b) The Paris Review.
(c) The New York Times.
(d) The Toronto Star.

15. Of what does Ernest accuse Hadley?
(a) Being jealous of every woman.
(b) Having an affair.
(c) Not being supportive of his writing.
(d) Nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Ernest's job send him?

2. What is wrong with Ernest when he arrives back in Paris?

3. What do the train officials tell Hadley?

4. What does Hadley lose on the train?

5. Why does Ernest rent an office?

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