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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Ernest and Pauline do when they meet by chance?
(a) Go to Pauline's and make love.
(b) Argue again.
(c) Discuss Hadley.
(d) Vow not to see each other anymore.

2. Why does Pauline go back to the States?
(a) To put in a plug for Ernest's new book.
(b) To visit her ill mother.
(c) To receive medical treatment.
(d) Ernest asks her to do so.

3. What do Ernest and Hadley do when the lease on the villa ends?
(a) Rent two rooms in a hotel.
(b) Return to Paris.
(c) Make plans to move back to the States.
(d) Renew the lease on the villa.

4. What is Hadley given for pain?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Ether.
(c) Aspirin.
(d) An injection.

5. Where is Hadley when she goes into labor?
(a) The beach.
(b) A dinner party.
(c) In Manhatten.
(d) Her sister's house.

6. What does Ernest say when Hadley asks about a possible move?
(a) To try it for awhile to see if it works out.
(b) Pauline will not be invited along.
(c) He wants to move alone.
(d) He has no intention of leaving their home in Paris.

7. What does Ernest suggest that he and Hadley should do?
(a) Move back to the States.
(b) Get drunk.
(c) Move further away from their Paris friends.
(d) Move to Austria.

8. What does Ernest write and ask Hadley?
(a) If she is leaving him.
(b) If she will give him another chance.
(c) If she will come to Madrid to meet him.
(d) If she wants to start fresh somewhere else.

9. What proofs does Ernest review?
(a) For a book that Ezra Pound is publishing.
(b) For a small book of his stories and poems.
(c) For a book of family stories that his sister is publishing.
(d) None.

10. Where do Dorothy and Ezra live most of the year?
(a) In Rapallo.
(b) In St. Moritz.
(c) In Bern.
(d) In London.

11. In what state are Hadley and Bumby on the beach?
(a) Washington.
(b) California.
(c) Florida.
(d) Oregon.

12. Where do Ernest and Hadley move?
(a) The United States.
(b) Canada.
(c) Italy.
(d) England.

13. Where does Ernest go when they return to Paris?
(a) Gertrude Stein's home.
(b) A separate motel from Hadley.
(c) Gerald's studio.
(d) F. Scott Fitzgerald's home.

14. What news does Ernest receive while on vacation that elates him?
(a) His brother is coming to visit.
(b) In Our Time was to be published.
(c) His second novel received great reviews.
(d) His father looks to be recovering fully.

15. What does Hadley finally decide?
(a) Ernest never loved her.
(b) Her marriage is over for good.
(c) She may try once more if Ernest comes to the United States and asks her.
(d) Bumby would be harmed to be raised with Pauline in the household.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pauline do one day when Hadley and Ernest were napping?

2. How does Ernest feel about Pauline and Hadley?

3. Why does Ernest go to New York?

4. What does Ernest tell Hadley when he is writing her memoirs?

5. What does Hadley tell Ernest when he returns from walking?

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