Ernest Hemingway

1. How many prizes did Hemingway win during his life?
   

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

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When did Hemingway write The Old man and the Sea?

• 1952

• 1953

• 1954

• 1955

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Hemingway served as a Red Cross ambulance driver during World War One. In which country was he wounded?

• France

• Germany

• Italy

• Austria

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Which was NOT Hemingway's style of writing?

• machine-like in its precision and austerity
  

• using life experiences as inspirations
  

• giving its own peculiar beauty and power
  

• the indiscriminate use of language

Where did Hemingway start his career at the age of 17?

• Texas

• Kansas

• Ketchum

• Paris

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Where was Hemingway born and raised?

• Kansas City, KS

• Oak Park, IL

• Saint Louis, MO

• Sun Valley, ID

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Ernest Hemingway described Oak Park as...

• a town of lovely people

• a town of wide lawns and narrow minds

• a town of his dream

• a town of vulgar and malicious people

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Hemingway's childhood wasn't a particularly easy one.

• true

• false

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What is the title of Ernest Hemingway's novel set during the Spanish Civil War?

• A Farewell to Arms

• The Sun Also Rises

• For Whom the Bell Tolls

• The Old Man and the Sea

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Which of the following is a characteristic of Hemingway's writing style?

• Complex sentence structures

• Flowery and descriptive language

• Minimalist and direct prose

• Frequent use of metaphors

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