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'The Sun Also Rises' Trivia Quiz

Hemingway's famed novel about the post-World War One 'lost generation' of expatriate Americans.

A multiple-choice quiz by tjoebigham. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
tjoebigham

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
43,322

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
15

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
9 / 15

Plays
1208

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Question 1 of 15

1. Name the book's narrator. Hint

Robert Jordan

Santiago

Harry Morgan

Jake Barnes

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Question 2 of 15

2. What was his profession? Hint

taxi driver

poet

newspaper reporter

painter

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Question 3 of 15

3. What was the result of his war wound? Hint

impotence

paralysis

blindness

loss of a leg

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Question 4 of 15

4. Who was the woman Jake (and almost every other man in the book) loved ? Hint

Marie Browning

Catherine Barkley

Lady Brett Ashley

Maria

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Question 5 of 15

5. Name the foreign Count who got arrow wounds in Abyssinia.

Answer: (One Word)

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Question 6 of 15

6. Name the Jewish ex-boxer who was obsessed with Brett. Hint

Charlie Davis

Robert Cohn

Stoker Thompson

Midge Kelly

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Question 7 of 15

7. What university did he first take up boxing? Hint

Princeton

Harvard

Yale

Cornell

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Question 8 of 15

8. What book by W.H. Hudson was a favorite of Robert's? Hint

Green Mansions

El Ombu

A Crystal Age

The Purple Land

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Question 9 of 15

9. Where in Spain did Jake and his friends go to? Hint

Madrid

Seville

Aranjuez

Pamplona

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Question 10 of 15

10. Who wrote the book Jake read while fishing in a Spanish stream? Hint

Izaak Walton

A.E.W. Mason

Mark Twain

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Question 11 of 15

11. Who was the bullfighter Brett fell for? Hint

Juan Gallardo

Jose Jimenez

Pedro Romero

Escamillo

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Question 12 of 15

12. What did Robert do when he caught Romero with Brett? Hint

ran him through with his own sword

shot him

beat him up

set a bull on him

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Question 13 of 15

13. What trouble did Brett telegraph Jake about?

Answer: (One Word)

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Question 14 of 15

14. Where (specifically) did Hemingway get his title?

Answer: (One Word)

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Question 15 of 15

15. And who coined 'lost generation'?

Answer: (Two Words)

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Name the book's narrator.

Answer: Jake Barnes

Jordan is the hero of 'For Whom The Bell Tolls', Morgan, of 'To Have and Have Not' and Santiago, of the Nobel Prize-winning 'The Old Man and the Sea' (played on screen by Cooper, Bogart and Tracy)

2. What was his profession?

Answer: newspaper reporter

He worked for the Paris branch of an American newspaper.

3. What was the result of his war wound?

Answer: impotence

Implied when Jakes looks at himself in the mirror and remembers the words of an Italian officer's words: 'You...have given more than your life.'

4. Who was the woman Jake (and almost every other man in the book) loved ?

Answer: Lady Brett Ashley

Brett was to wed Mike Campbell later in the book.

5. Name the foreign Count who got arrow wounds in Abyssinia.

Answer: Mippipopolous

One of the book's most memorable characters.

6. Name the Jewish ex-boxer who was obsessed with Brett.

Answer: Robert Cohn

The three others are the heroes of the the great 40's ring dramas, 'Body and Soul', 'The Set-Up' and 'Champion'.

7. What university did he first take up boxing?

Answer: Princeton

F. Scott Fitzgerald's old alma mater, by the by!

8. What book by W.H. Hudson was a favorite of Robert's?

Answer: The Purple Land

Though 'Mansions', with Rima the bird girl, is Hudson's best-known work today, Hemingway had Robert prefer Hudson's first novel.

9. Where in Spain did Jake and his friends go to?

Answer: Pamplona

For the fiesta, bullfights and the famed 'running of the bulls'.

10. Who wrote the book Jake read while fishing in a Spanish stream?

Answer: A.E.W. Mason

Not Mason' best-known work 'Four Feathers' but a short story {collection;} the story was 'The Crystal Trench' about a woman waiting to see her husband frozen in a {glacier;} it became an episode on 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents' directed by the Master himself.

11. Who was the bullfighter Brett fell for?

Answer: Pedro Romero

Hemingway was a lifelong bullfighting fan.

12. What did Robert do when he caught Romero with Brett?

Answer: beat him up

Despite the beating, Romero appeared in the corrida the next day.

13. What trouble did Brett telegraph Jake about?

Answer: money

She needed to pay her hotel bill.

14. Where (specifically) did Hemingway get his title?

Answer: Ecclesiastes

The famous passage from the Book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible.

15. And who coined 'lost generation'?

Answer: Gertrude Stein

Ernest's mentor.

Source: Author tjoebigham

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