Mcq's on Earnest Hemingway

1. Ernest Hemingway’s first job was as

a. a reporter for the Kansas City Star

b. a fishing guide in northern Michigan

c. an ambulance driver for the Red Cross

2. Hemingway and first wife, Hadley, initially lived exclusively from

a. Hemingway’s free-lance journalism

b. the gift of an erstwhile benefactor

c. the income of Hadley’s trust fund

3. Another early story is "Indian Camp." The plot revolves around Nick Adams on a trip in which he

a. accompanies an old Indian on a bear hunt

b. travels with his doctor father on a house call

c. spends the weekend in the woods with some other boys

d. loses his virginity on a camping trip

4. When the young Hemingway in Paris showed Gertrude Stein the manuscript of his first novel, she
replied: "There is a great deal of description in this, and not particularly good description ."

5. The author to bring Hemingway’s writing to the attention of Scribner’s editor Maxwell Perkins was

a. Sherwood Anderson

b. Scott Fitzgerald

c. Dorothy Parker

d. Allen Tate

6. Hemingway’s opinion of The Great Gatsby was that it was

a. sentimental muck

b. a first-rate novel

c. artificial

7. One of Hemingway’s hangouts in Key West was

a. Red’s Tavern

b. The Blue Moon

c. Sloppy Joe’s Bar

d. Chicote’s Bar

10. The character of Lieutenant Rinaldi appears in which novel?

A Farewell To Arms

8. Protagonist Jake Barnes in The Sun Also Rises suffers from

a. impotence

b. manic depression

c. cirrhosis

d. amnesia

9. Who was the author of "Bull in the Afternoon," one of the more damning reviews of Hemingway’s
Death in the Afternoon?

Max Eastman

10. In which book does Hemingway present sketches of his early life in Paris in the twenties?

A Movable Feast

11. Big Two-Hearted River was the name Hemingway chose for its poetic and symbolic connotations, but
the actual river on which he based the story is

a. Rapid River

b. Des Plaines

c. Bear

d. Fox

12. In which novel does the protagonist contract to smuggle Chinese from Cuba into the U.S.?

To Have and To Have Not

16. Harry in "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" dies from

a. a gunshot fired by his wife

b. an attack by a leopard

c. gangrene

d. malaria

13. The American protagonist in For Whom the Bell Tolls entered the Loyalist army during the Spanish
Civil War and was sent to join a guerrilla band where his mission was to

a. blow up a bridge
b. sabotage a railway line

c. conduct hit-and-run raids against the Falangists

14. The character of Philip Rawlings, a correspondent secretly engaged as a counter-spy in besieged
Madrid, appears in which work?

The Fifth Column

15. "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" is set in

a. a hospital

b. a newspaper office

c. a café

d. the home of the narrator’s mistress

16. The entire text of The Old Man and the Sea first appeared in

a. Life

b. Esquire

c. Scribner’s Magazine

d. The Paris Review

17. Hemingway refused to travel to Russia in 1922 when asked to go by the Toronto Star where he was
employed. His reason was that

a. the fishing was poor

b. the hotels were bad

c. the women were not appealing

18. Which one of the following actors never appeared in a film based on Hemingway’s work?

a. Gary Cooper

b. Elizabeth Taylor

c. Ava Gardner

d. Ingrid Bergman

e. Humphrey Bogart

f. Ronald Reagan

g. Burt Lancaster

h. Gregory Peck
i. Susan Hayward

j. Lee Marvin

k. Rock Hudson

19.What age did Ernest Hemingway live to?

a.61 years

b.73 years

c.67 years

20.How many novels did Hemingway publish?

a.5

b.12

c.7

21.How many awards has he won for literature?

a.4

b.2

c.1

22.What role did Hemingway have when he was enlisted in World War I?

a.Doctor

b.Frontline soldier

c.Ambulance driver

23.When was Ernest Hemingway’s first novel published?

a.1926

b.1954

c.1929

24.What is the title of his last published novel?

a.The Old Man and the Sea

b.A Farewell to Arms

c.For Whom the Bell Tolls

25.What did Hemingway steal from his favorite bar?

a.A bottle of rum

b.A urinal

c.A bar stool

26.How many times did Ernest Hemingway marry in his lifetime?

a.1

b.4

c.3

27.What type of cat was Hemingway interested with?

a.Albino

b.Polydactyl

c.Bengal

28.Which year did Earnest Hemingway set a world record for catching the most marlin (7) in one day?

a.1953

b.1938

c.1942