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Classic Hemingway Novels Trivia Quiz

This quiz deals with 'The Sun Also Rises' , 'A Farewell to Arms' and 'The Old Man and the Sea', three Hemingway Classics.

A multiple-choice quiz by flem-ish. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
flem-ish

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
70,882

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
6 / 10

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Top 35% Quiz

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Question 1 of 10

1. What was the title under which Hemingway's novel 'The Sun Also Rises' was published for the first time in England in 1927? Hint

A Moveable Feast

Festa

Fiesta

Death in the Afternoon

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Question 2 of 10

2. Which of these characters does Brett Ashley (the heroine) stay with at the end of 'The Sun Also Rises' at least temporarily? Hint

Robert Cohn, ex-boxer, novelist, intellectual and a Jew

Pedro Romero, a young bullfighter

Jake Barnes, a journalist made impotent by a war wound

Count Mippipopoulos, a veteran of seven wars and four revolutions

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Question 3 of 10

3. Which of these locations plays no role in "The Sun Also Rises"? Hint

San Sebastian

Madrid

Sevilla

Pamplona

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Question 4 of 10

4. What is the nationality of Frederic Henry's girl-friend in the book, the nurse Catherine Barkley? Hint

Canadian

British

American

Irish

5. The hero of 'A Farewell to Arms' gets seriously wounded in the head and legs during a mortar attack.He is taken to the general hospital where his mutilated knee is operated on. Who is the doctor who operates? Hint

Three rather windy and ineffectual doctors

One Dr. Valentini

His friend Rinaldi, an Italian army surgeon

The female head doctor of the hospital

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Question 6 of 10

6. After a period of reconvalescence, Frederic-Henry returns to the front.After the retreat from Caporetto, he is arrested by the Italian battle police and only narrowly escapes being shot. How does he escape? Hint

He steals a jeep and drives off.

His friend, the priest from the Abruzzi, intervenes and pleads for him.

He kills the two policemen.

He plunges into a river and then jumps onto a train.

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Question 7 of 10

7. Frederic Henry finds back his girl-friend at Stresa, but soon realizes he is not safe there from the Italian police either.How does he escape this time? Hint

On foot across the mountains

In a boat across the Lago Maggiore

Via a subterranean tunnel

In a hot air balloon

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Question 8 of 10

8. When he thinks he has made his farewell to the arms (= the war), he soon has to make his farewell to the arms of Catherine as well.What happens ? Hint

While climbing a Swiss mountain, Catherine slips and falls into a ravine

She gets pneumonia after breaking a leg, and lying unconscious in the pouring rain for a full night

While crossing a lake, she falls overboard and is drowned

She dies in childbirth

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Question 9 of 10

9. What is the name of the Cuban boy who is Santiago's companion in 'The Old Man and the Sea'? Hint

Manolin

Emmanuel

Manolo

Manuel

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Question 10 of 10

10. What type of fish is it the Old Man tries to bring ashore? Hint

A tuna

A shark

A dolphin

A marlin

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What was the title under which Hemingway's novel 'The Sun Also Rises' was published for the first time in England in 1927?

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.

2. Which of these characters does Brett Ashley (the heroine) stay with at the end of 'The Sun Also Rises' at least temporarily?

Answer: Jake Barnes, a journalist made impotent by a war wound

Hemingway lived from 1899 till 1961. Two other important characters in the story are: Mike Campbell , who was Brett's fiance after her divorce from Lord Ashley {;Bill} Gorton, Jake's 'confidant'.

3. Which of these locations plays no role in "The Sun Also Rises"?

Answer: Sevilla

Pamplona is where Brett meets Romero and seems to give up Jake. San Sebastian is where Jake receives the telegram in which Brett tells him she wants to see him again. Madrid is where Brett and Jake meet again at the end of the book, after they had separated in Pamplona.

4. What is the nationality of Frederic Henry's girl-friend in the book, the nurse Catherine Barkley?

Answer: British

Her friend Helen Ferguson is Scottish. Both are nurses.

Answer: One Dr. Valentini

There is no female headdoctor.

Answer: He plunges into a river and then jumps onto a train.

Furious because of the break through of the Germans at Caporetto the battle police had started shooting the officers of the retreating troops.

7. Frederic Henry finds back his girl-friend at Stresa, but soon realizes he is not safe there from the Italian police either.How does he escape this time?

Answer: In a boat across the Lago Maggiore

The Lago Maggiore separates Italy from Switzerland. Just as in World War II, Switzerland was a neutral country in World War I.

8. When he thinks he has made his farewell to the arms (= the war), he soon has to make his farewell to the arms of Catherine as well.What happens ?

Answer: She dies in childbirth

She has to have a caesarean.The baby is still-born. Catherine dies.The book ends with Frederic Henry overwhelmed by sadness and pouring rain.

9. What is the name of the Cuban boy who is Santiago's companion in 'The Old Man and the Sea'?

Answer: Manolin

The boy talks tot he fisherman about Joe di Maggio and his exploits as a baseball player.

10. What type of fish is it the Old Man tries to bring ashore?

Answer: A marlin

At the beginning and at the end of the story the Old Man dreams of 'lions in his homeland Africa'. In spite of his losing his catch, there is still moral strength in him to try again.

Source: Author flem-ish

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