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Quiz about The CutShort Happy Life of Hemingway
Quiz about The CutShort Happy Life of Hemingway

The Cut-Short Happy Life of Hemingway Quiz

These questions are all based upon short stories written by "Papa." As you can tell from the title, Mr. Macomber may make his appearance here...somewhere...

A multiple-choice quiz by C_R_Stemple. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
C_R_Stemple
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
227,027
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
6 / 10
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415
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Question 1 of 10
1. James Joyce once hailed this story as, "one of the best stories ever written." Hint


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Question 2 of 10
2. Some say that this famous Hemingway-Nick Adams story is a metaphor for hell and/or death. Hint


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Question 3 of 10
3. According to 'Blindy,' Willie Sawyer will never be one of these. Hint


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Question 4 of 10
4. Hemingway himself said of this story, "there is enough material here to fit four novels." Hint


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Question 5 of 10
5. In this story about the Spanish Civil War, Hemingway's character says of a barbarous woman and her lover, "...even though I was a writer and supposed to have an insatiable curiosity about all sorts of people, I did not really care to know whether these two were married, or what they saw in each other, or what their politics were, or whether he had little money, or she had little money, or anything about them." Hint


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Question 6 of 10
6. Which of these books was NOT a Hemingway short story collection? Hint


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Question 7 of 10
7. The death of Hemingway's father drove him to write this story. Hint


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Question 8 of 10
8. An affectionate father reads Pyle's "Book of Pirates" in this VERY short story. Hint


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Question 9 of 10
9. One of Hemingway's stories in which we not only see a writer witnessing events that will later be turned into a story, but a blatant statement from another character asking Hemingway's narrator to write the story with this name as the title. Hint


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Question 10 of 10
10. His wife may have been more dangerous to him than any lion, in this story. Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. James Joyce once hailed this story as, "one of the best stories ever written."

Answer: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place

 The story presents the relationship between the young and the restless (represented in the young waiter who wants to get home to his wife) and elderly wisdom (represented in the older waiter who is willing to wait for a broken old man to finish his drink in their nice cafe so the old man does not have to go to a filthy, dark bar and drink alone).
2. Some say that this famous Hemingway-Nick Adams story is a metaphor for hell and/or death.

Answer: The Killers

 ("The Killers" was the only Nick Adams story in the list.)
Hemingway likely didn't make very much money when he first published 'The Killers' in 1927 - in fact, it is said that he likely only received $200.00 total! However, he was able to write the screenplay for the first edition of the movie, so the numbers evened out.
3. According to 'Blindy,' Willie Sawyer will never be one of these.

Answer: A Man of the World

 Only "A Man of the World" was in fact written by Hemingway! "A Dead Issue" was written by Charels M. Flandrau, "Friend of the Family" was by Kay Boyle and "The Lucid Eye in Silver Town" was by John Updike. All of the stories can be found in the collection "50 Great American Short Stories."
4. Hemingway himself said of this story, "there is enough material here to fit four novels."

Answer: The Snows of Kilimanjaro

 This is probably why he decided to name the collection of short stories that included and accompanied this story, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro."
5. In this story about the Spanish Civil War, Hemingway's character says of a barbarous woman and her lover, "...even though I was a writer and supposed to have an insatiable curiosity about all sorts of people, I did not really care to know whether these two were married, or what they saw in each other, or what their politics were, or whether he had little money, or she had little money, or anything about them."

Answer: The Butterfly and the Tank

 This type of behavior is unique for Hemingway's characters, as it defies his ever-present narrative philosophy of "men with grace under pressure."
6. Which of these books was NOT a Hemingway short story collection?

Answer: Go Down, Moses

 "Go Down, Moses" was written by William Faulkner, Hemingway's long-time literary rival. Where Hemingway was always known for his simple, understated sentence structure, Faulkner used many compound complex sentences, along with confusing parallel narratives. Ironically enough, BOTH eventually won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
7. The death of Hemingway's father drove him to write this story.

Answer: Fathers and Sons

 Sadly, Hemingway's father's suicide would eventually be a motivation for Hemingway's own suicide, via a self-inflicted shotgun wound.
8. An affectionate father reads Pyle's "Book of Pirates" in this VERY short story.

Answer: A Day's Wait

 Printed in "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," this story about a boy with a fever and a confusion between degrees Celsius and degrees Fahrenheit is an astonishing three pages long!
9. One of Hemingway's stories in which we not only see a writer witnessing events that will later be turned into a story, but a blatant statement from another character asking Hemingway's narrator to write the story with this name as the title.

Answer: The Butterfly and the Tank

 The temptation to put the persona of a writer in many of his stories was often too great for Hemingway, but this story shows this most prominently, with a bartender telling an American writer helping the Republic in the Spanish Civil War that he should write a story about a bar fight that occured the previous night, and call it "The Butterfly and the Tank."
10. His wife may have been more dangerous to him than any lion, in this story.

Answer: The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

 Told you he'd be in here somewhere!
Source: Author C_R_Stemple

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