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Quiz about Hems Roman  clef The Sun Also Rises
Quiz about Hems Roman  clef The Sun Also Rises

Hem's Roman à clef, "The Sun Also Rises" Quiz


Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises", a semi-autobiographical novel about a group of expats living in Paris, has been in print continuously since its publication in 1926. How much do you know about this canonical book? Most of the pictures should help a bit.

A photo quiz by PootyPootwell. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Time
4 mins
Type
Photo Quiz
Quiz #
382,549
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
8 / 10
Plays
245
Last 3 plays: Guest 23 (10/10), Riders23 (9/10), Guest 23 (7/10).
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Question 1 of 10
1. The narrator Jake Barnes has a job that allows him quite a bit of flexibility, as he works in between drinks, meals, tennis, and more drinks. What is his profession in Paris? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. We learn before long that Jake has a medical issue. What is it? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. Did Jake's medical issue affect his relationship with Brett, Lady Ashley?


Question 4 of 10
4. One of Jake's American friends falls hard for Lady Ashley. Jake describes him as his tennis friend. Who is it? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. When the gang heads to Spain for the annual Festival of San Fermín, only Jake and Bill make it to the fishing trip part of the travel itinerary. They fish the "trouty" Irati river and take up a term for drinking wine. What verb do they use? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. When the group congregates in Pamplona, Brett has dropped her American admirer and takes up with a talented Spanish bullfighter by the name of Pedro Romero. After a particularly good bullfighting performance, Pedro gives Brett a token of his affection. What is it? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. Read this one carefully, please. When Jake learns of Brett's affair with Pedro, he is not as angry as he was when he learned of Brett's affair with his American tennis friend. What is NOT a reason for Jake to be angry with the American and not the Spaniard? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. One of the few relationships based on respect is between Jake and the innkeeper Montoya, who considers Jake a bullfighting aficionado. By the time Jake checks out of the Hotel Montoya, however, Montoya won't even look at Jake. Why is that, most likely? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. After the Fiesta, Jake travels alone for some downtime in the coastal town of San Sebastian. After a few days, he receives two rather urgent telegrams from Brett in Madrid. What does he do? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. In the final scene in the novel, Jake and Brett are sitting together in a taxi on the streets of Madrid. When Brett says that it's a shame, because they would have been a great couple, Jake says: "Yes. Isn't it _______ to think so?" What one word goes in the blank? Hint



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1. The narrator Jake Barnes has a job that allows him quite a bit of flexibility, as he works in between drinks, meals, tennis, and more drinks. What is his profession in Paris?

Answer: Journalist

Jake Barnes is an American journalist living in Paris when we meet him. Jake's job underlines his powers of observation, an important role for his character as he relays the story of what his friends and frenemies do. When Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley lived in Paris, which is where Hemingway wrote "The Sun Also Rises", Hemingway was a journalist for "The Toronto Star" newspaper.
2. We learn before long that Jake has a medical issue. What is it?

Answer: Made impotent from an unspecified war wound

Never specified, Jake's wound has rendered him impotent but otherwise healthy. While today's modern medicine would offer some help for Jake's problem, in the 1920s it made it much less likely for him to ever marry and have a family. His generation, traumatized by the war, is already considered rootless, and this makes Jake even more so.

At the same time, it allows him a certain detachment that in this case makes for an exceptionally perceptive narrator.
3. Did Jake's medical issue affect his relationship with Brett, Lady Ashley?

Answer: Yes

If "Hell, yes" were a choice, that would be the best answer. Jake met Brett before the novel opens while he recuperated from his injury in a hospital in England. Though they fell in love, they were unable to consummate their relationship, and, as becomes quite clear, this is not a medical issue Lady Ashley is going to work around.

While few details are given, Jake and Brett's relationship quickly disintegrated and Brett became engaged to another man. This unconsummated passion is a driving factor in Jake's life and the novel.
4. One of Jake's American friends falls hard for Lady Ashley. Jake describes him as his tennis friend. Who is it?

Answer: Robert Cohn

Robert Cohn is Jake's tennis friend, and the plot of the novel takes off when Robert, who is engaged to another woman, meets the stunning Brett, Lady Ashley, who is engaged to another man. Robert is smitten, Jake is annoyed, and Brett is interested enough to have a fling with Cohn. "When he fell in love with Brett his tennis game went all to pieces," reports Jake.
5. When the gang heads to Spain for the annual Festival of San Fermín, only Jake and Bill make it to the fishing trip part of the travel itinerary. They fish the "trouty" Irati river and take up a term for drinking wine. What verb do they use?

Answer: Utilize

The fishing scenes, with the characters standing deep in the clear waters of the Irati, are particularly charming. The men enjoy each other's banter about utilizing wine and irony and pity. From Book 2, Chapter 12:

"Bill gestured with the drumstick in one hand and the bottle of wine in the other.

" 'Let us rejoice in our blessings. Let us utilize the fowls of the air. Let us utilize the product of the vine. Will you utilize a little, brother?' "

" ' After you, brother.' "
6. When the group congregates in Pamplona, Brett has dropped her American admirer and takes up with a talented Spanish bullfighter by the name of Pedro Romero. After a particularly good bullfighting performance, Pedro gives Brett a token of his affection. What is it?

Answer: A severed bull's ear

Pedro Romero may be young, but he's one of the most promising bullfighters the bullfighting aficionados have seen in the ring in years. The judges award Pedro his bull's ear, which he presents to Brett, who takes it graciously at the time. Later, however, it's found stuffed and forgotten in the back of her hotel dresser drawer, symbolizing the fleeting nature of Brett's relationship with Pedro.
7. Read this one carefully, please. When Jake learns of Brett's affair with Pedro, he is not as angry as he was when he learned of Brett's affair with his American tennis friend. What is NOT a reason for Jake to be angry with the American and not the Spaniard?

Answer: Robert is poor and Pedro is rich

Throughout the novel, characters makes references to those of the 1920s generation who are "one of us" (as voiced by Brett) versus those are who not. Bill, Mike, Brett, Count Mippipopolous, and Jake were all either in war or deeply affected by it, whereas Robert did not take part in WWI. Pedro may not have been a soldier, but, with his extreme grace under pressure in the bullring, he endears himself to Jake and others who admire courage.
8. One of the few relationships based on respect is between Jake and the innkeeper Montoya, who considers Jake a bullfighting aficionado. By the time Jake checks out of the Hotel Montoya, however, Montoya won't even look at Jake. Why is that, most likely?

Answer: Montoya feels Jake's introduction of Brett to Pedro has corrupted Pedro's purity

Montoya had made it very clear earlier to Jake that Montoya and the other Spanish aficionados had great hopes for Pedro Romero as the best bullfighter of his generation, and that if he were exposed to the wrong type of foreigners, he could become vain and spoiled. With Brett's loose morals (they would be loose according to the old-fashioned Montoya) and with Jake's friends' propensity for drunkenness and petty infighting, Montoya would be sorely disappointed that Jake had exposed the young Pedro to such debauchery.

It was clear Jake would not be welcome back to Hotel Montoya.
9. After the Fiesta, Jake travels alone for some downtime in the coastal town of San Sebastian. After a few days, he receives two rather urgent telegrams from Brett in Madrid. What does he do?

Answer: Takes the next express to Madrid to help her

Despite everything, Jake books a seat on the next express train to Madrid to rescue Brett, who has been left penniless and alone.

"That was it," Jake reports in Chapter 19. "Send a girl off with one man. Introduce her to another to go off with him. Now go and bring her back."
10. In the final scene in the novel, Jake and Brett are sitting together in a taxi on the streets of Madrid. When Brett says that it's a shame, because they would have been a great couple, Jake says: "Yes. Isn't it _______ to think so?" What one word goes in the blank?

Answer: Pretty

"Isn't it pretty to think so?" has gone down in several lists of "Best Final Lines," including the Huffington Post's 2014 "21 Amazing Last Lines From Literature That Will Make You Want To Read The Whole Book."

Literary scholars have discovered other final lines that Hemingway drafted, including "It's nice as hell to think so" and "Isn't it nice to think so." But as the New Yorker magazine indicated in 2008, "Isn't it pretty to think so?" is perfectly balanced with the opposing forces of hope and skepticism that define the Lost Generation.
Source: Author PootyPootwell

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