Ernest Hemingway Trivia

1. To begin, what genre is Hemingway's "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"?

From Quiz Hemingway Goes to Kilimanjaro

Answer: Short story

"The Snows of Kilimanjaro" is a short story, about 22 pages, written after Hemingway's safari to Africa. It was first published in 1936 in "Esquire" magazine.

From Quiz Hills Like White Elephants

Answer: Train station

They are sitting at an outdoor table, in the shade waiting on a train to Madrid. They were told it was going to be a 40 minute wait so they decided to order drinks while they wait.

From Quiz The Old Man, the Sea, and You

Answer: 84

Although the old man held a previous record of 87 days, at the novel's opening he has gone 84 days without catching a fish. In the first 40 the boy (Manolin) had been with him, but his parents had agreed that the old man was finally "salao," or the worst form of unlucky. They insisted that the boy sail with someone else.

From Quiz The Cut-Short Happy Life of Hemingway

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).

From Quiz The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

Answer: Macomber cowardly ran away from a lion hunt.

Hemingway's opening lunch scene in which the characters were pretending that nothing had happened is superb.

From Quiz Hemingway's "Death in the Afternoon"

Answer: Horrified and sickened

In a bullfight, there is danger for the man and certain death for the bull. While the bull's fate is certain, the man can increase or decrease the danger to himself at will by working closer or farther from the horns.

From Quiz "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

Answer: He was a middleweight boxing champion and hopeless pursuer of Brett Ashley.

Frustrated in his pursuit of Brett Ashley, he becomes drunk and punches both Jake and Bill and knocks them out.

From Quiz Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea" Quiz

Answer: Santiago

However, he is usually referred to in the book as "the old man".

From Quiz "A Farewell to Arms"

Answer: American

Frederic Henry's character is based on Hemingway's own experiences. Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois.

From Quiz Classic Hemingway Novels

Answer: Fiesta

The title as used for the American edition in 1926,New York, Charles Scribner's Sons,refers to a quote from 'Ecclesiastes': 'The Sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteneth' to his place where he arose. And that which is done, is that which shall be done, and there is no new thing made under the Sun.' In 1927 Jonathan Cape,in London used the title which Hemingway himself had originally wanted. Death in the Afternoon was also published by Scribner's Sons.(1932).According to Amazon A Moveable Feast was published posthumously in 1964.The Arrow Classic edition however says it was published in the U.K. in 1936, which is simply impossible as the book itself has a preface by Hemingway dated 1960. It is a memoir of fellow expatriates in Paris such as Fitzgerald, Pound and Stein.

From Quiz 'The Sun Also Rises'

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)

From Quiz 10 Earnest Questions About Hemingway

Answer: Oak Park, IL

Hemingway was born in Oak Park, which is near Chicago, in 1899. His parents had a camp near Boyne City, where Hemingway spent time while growing up. His work 'Big Two-Hearted River' is set in Michigan's Upper Peninsula near the small town of Seney.

From Quiz Hemingway Goes to Kilimanjaro

Answer: Tanzania

Mount Kilimanjaro is in Tanzania. The highest mountain in Africa, the origin of the name is undetermined, though Hemingway seemed to favor the interpretation of "kilelema" as "defeats" or "impossible", and "jaro" or "leopard"--a mountain that defeats the leopard. Early in his story, Hemingway writes: "Close to the western summit there is the dried and frozen carcass of a leopard". What the leopard symbolizes has been much debated by literary critics.

From Quiz Hills Like White Elephants

Answer: Her hat

One thing that stands out to me in this story is how short their answers are to each other. The entire story is dialogue between the two of them but it seems as if they have to give short answers because they don't seem to know how to talk to each other about important things.

From Quiz The Old Man, the Sea, and You

Answer: Africa

When he was young, the old man journeyed to the beaches of Africa and saw lions playing on the beach. Every night, instead of great fish or his long gone wife, he dreams of the lions on the beach.

From Quiz The Cut-Short Happy Life of Hemingway

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.

From Quiz The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

Answer: Margaret

Margaret (also called Margot) Macomber is a very interesting character. She begins to hate her husband after his displays of cowardice, but when he becomes brave she feels threatened.

From Quiz Hemingway's "Death in the Afternoon"

Answer: Violent death

"People seeing their first bullfight say, 'But the bulls are so stupid. They always go for the cape and not the man.'" (Chapter 2)

From Quiz "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

Answer: Kansas City, USA.

He is an American living in Paris as a newspaper correspondent.

From Quiz Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea" Quiz

Answer: Joe DiMaggio

Though the legend never actually appears in the book, DiMaggio plays an important part in "The Old Man and the Sea" as Santiago often compares his hardships to DiMaggio's bone spur, sympathizes with his fisherman father and refers to him as "the great DiMaggio".

From Quiz "A Farewell to Arms"

Answer: Italy

Henry is an ambulance driver. In real life, Hemingway was rejected by the American army. He went to Italy and was the first American casualty on the Italian front.

From Quiz Hemingway's Nick Adams

Answer: Summit

In "The Killers", Nick is held hostage along with two of the diner employees. Two hitmen are searching for a boxer who frequents the diner. Nick ultimately warns the boxer, who decides not to run away.

From Quiz 'The Sun Also Rises'

Answer: newspaper reporter

He worked for the Paris branch of an American newspaper.

From Quiz 10 Earnest Questions About Hemingway

Answer: Italy

Hemingway's book 'A Farewell to Arms' is roughly based on his experiences with the Italian army.

From Quiz Hemingway Goes to Kilimanjaro

Answer: Writer

Harry Street is a professional writer who feels he abandoned his writing talent in trade for moral decay and decadence. Though the stories are still in him, he resents friends and lovers for leading him away from his true self, and feels he may never do his "duty" and get that writing done.

From Quiz Hills Like White Elephants

Answer: His name isn't revealed to the reader.

The man is referred to simply as 'The American' and since the girl never calls him by name the readers never know his name. It's interesting how Hemingway calls the the man 'Man' and Jig, 'Girl'. Although their ages aren't revealed, I think they're about the same age, but she seems much younger than the man.

From Quiz The Old Man, the Sea, and You

Answer: La mar

The old man calls the sea "la mar" because he likes to think of it as a woman that gives or withholds great favors.

From Quiz The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

Answer: 11 years

According to the story, Margaret's opportunities to leave Francis were past.

From Quiz "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

Answer: An anti-semite Scot, he is often drunk and likes to attack Cohn one way or another.

In the novel, Mike is drunk most of the time.

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