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Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Hemingway’s home was at Oak Park

B) Hemingway’s home was in a Chicago suburb

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Hemingway’s home was in a Chicago suburb

B) It was the sadistical novel, The Torrents of Spring, which established Hemingway’s name widely

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Hemingway’s international reputation was firmly secured by his next three books: Fiesta, Men Without Women and A Farewell to Arms

B) Hemingway’s direct and deceptively simple style of writing spawned generations of imitators and plenty of equals

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Hemingway’s international reputation was firmly secured by his next three books: Fiesta, Men Without Women and A Farewell to Arms

B) Hemingway renewed his earlier friendship with such fellow-American expatriates as Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Hemingway’s international search was firmly secured by his next three books: Fiesta, Men Without Women and A Farewell to Arms

B) In 1917 Hemingway joined the Kansas City Star

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Hemingway’s writing reflected his mania

B) Hemingway was badly wounded

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) In 1917 Hemingway joined the Kansas City Star.

B) Ernest Hemingway died in 1971

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) In 1917 Hemingway joined the Kansas City Star

B) Hemingway joined the Kansas City Star as a cub reporter

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) In 1918 Hemingway volunteered to work as an ambulance car

B) Hemingway volunteered to work as an ambulance driver on the Italian beach

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) In 1918 Hemingway volunteered to work as an ambulance driver

B) Hemingway lives in Venezuela in hiding

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) In 1918 Hemingway volunteered to work as an ambulance driver

B) Hemingway volunteered to work as an ambulance driver on the Italian front

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) In 1922 Hemingway reported on the Greco-Turkish soccer game

B) In 1954 Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Price for Literature

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) In 1922 Hemingway settled in Paris

B) Hemingway visited China during the Civil War

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) In 1954 Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Price for Chemistry.

B) In 1918 Hemingway volunteered to work as an ambulance driver

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) It was the sadistical novel, The Torrents of Spring, which established Hemingway’s name widely

B) Hemingway’s home was in a Chicago suburb

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) It was the satirical novel, The Torrents of Spring, which established Hemingway’s name widely

B) Hemingway married in 1922, but divorced in a week.

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Recognition of Hemingway’s position in contemporary literature came in 1954

B) In 1954 Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Price for Literature

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Recognition of Hemingway’s position in contemporary literature came in 1994

B) Hemingway volunteered to work as an ambulance driver on the Italian front

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: It came very fast and the sun went a dull yellow and then everything was grey and the sky was covered and the ___ came on down the mountain and suddenly we were in it and it was snow

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: My friend saw the priest from our mess going by in the street, walking carefully in the slush, and pounded on the window to attract his ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: . In the bed of the river there were pebbles and boulders, dry and white in the ___ and the water was clear and swiftly moving and blue in the channels

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: . The others were shouting. “There’s good ___ . You would like the people and though it is cold it is clear and dry. You could stay with my family. My father is a famous hunter.”

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: . Troops went by the house and down the ___ and the dust they raised powdered the leaves of the trees

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: At the start of the winter came the permanent rain and with the rain came the cholera. But it was checked and in the end only ___ thousand died of it in the army

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He lived in ___ and came out in this way nearly every day to see how things were going, and things went very badly

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the ___ and the plain to the mountains

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Later, below in the town, I watched the snow falling, looking out of the window of the bawdy – house, the house of officers, where I sat with a friend and two glasses drinking a bottle of Asti, and, looking out at the snow falling slowly and heavily, we knew it was all over for that ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Now the fighting was in the next mountains beyond and was not a mile away. The ___ was very nice and our house was very fine

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: People lived on it and there were ___ up side streets and two bawdy-houses, one for troops and one for officers

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Sometimes in the dark we heard the troops marching under the window and guns going past pulled by motor-….

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: That night in the mess after the spaghetti course, which every one ate very quickly and seriously, lifting the spaghetti on the ___ until the loose strands hung clear then lowering it into the mouth

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The captain spoke pidgin Italian for my doubtful benefit, in order that I might understand perfectly, that nothing should be ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The forest had been green in the summer when we had come into the town but now there were the stumps and the broken trunks and the ground torn up, and one day at the end of the fall when I was out where the oak forest had been I saw a ___ coming over the mountain

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The forest of oak trees on the mountain beyond the ___ was gone

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The next year there were many ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The plain was rich with crops; there were many orchards of fruit trees and beyond the plain the mountains were brown and ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The priest looked up. He saw us and ___ . My friend motioned for him to come in

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The priest shook his ___ and went on., or else using a continuous lift and sucking it into the mouth, helping ourselves to wine from the grass-covered gallon flask

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The priest was young and blushed easily and wore a uniform like the ___ of us but with a cross in dark red velvet above the left breast-pocket of his gray tunic

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The river ran behind us and the town had been captured very handsomely but the mountains beyond it could not be taken and I was very glad the ___ seemed to want to come back to the town some time, if the war should end, because they did not bombard it to destroy it but only a little in a military way

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The snow slanted across the ___ , the bare ground was covered, the stumps of trees projected, there was snow on the guns and there were paths in the snow going back to the latrines behind trenches

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The trunks of the ___ too were dusty and the leaves fell early that year and we saw the troops marching along the road and the dust rising and leaves, stirred by the breeze, falling and the soldiers marching and afterwards the road bare and white except for the leaves

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The vineyards were thin and bare-branched too and all the country wet and ___ and dead with the autumn

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The ___ that was beyond the valley and the hillside where the chestnut forest grew was captured and there were victories beyond the plain on the plateau to the south

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: There was fighting for that mountain too, but it was not successful, and in the fall when the rains came the leaves all fell from the chestnut trees and the branches were bare and the trunks black with ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: There was fighting in the ___ and at night we could see the flashes from the artillery

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: There was much traffic at night and many mules on the roads with ___ of ammunition on each side of their pack-saddles and grey motor-trucks that carried men, and other trucks with loads covered with canvas that moved slower in the traffic

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: There were big guns too that passed in the day drawn by tractors, the long barrels of the ___ covered with green branches and green leafy branches and vines laid over the tractors

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: There were mists over the river and clouds on the mountain and the trucks splashed mud on the road and the troops were muddy and wet in the capes; their rifles were wet and under their capes the two leather cartridge-boxes on the front of the belts, grey leather boxes heavy with the packs of clips of thin, long 6.5mm. cartridge, bulged forward under the capes so that the men, passing on the road, marched as though they were six months gone with ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: There were small grey motor-cars that passed going very fast; usually there was an officer on the seat with the driver and more officers in the back ___