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Ernest Hemingway (writer)
Contributed by: Handley
  • 1. When did Ernest Hemingway die?
A) 1961
B) 1955
C) 1980
D) 1972
  • 2. What age was Hemingway when he died?
A) 54
B) 61
C) 72
D) 68
  • 3. What was the name of Hemingway's fourth wife at the time of his death?
A) Hadley Richardson
B) Martha Gellhorn
C) Mary Welsh
D) Pauline Pfeiffer
  • 4. What was the title of Hemingway's first novel?
A) A Farewell to Arms
B) The Sun Also Rises
C) The Old Man and the Sea
D) For Whom the Bell Tolls
  • 5. What literary award did Hemingway win in 1954?
A) National Book Award
B) Man Booker Prize
C) Nobel Prize in Literature
D) Pulitzer Prize
  • 6. In which war did Hemingway serve as an ambulance driver?
A) Vietnam War
B) World War I
C) Spanish Civil War
D) World War II
  • 7. What was the title of Hemingway's memoir published posthumously in 1964?
A) Green Hills of Africa
B) Death in the Afternoon
C) Across the River and Into the Trees
D) A Moveable Feast
  • 8. Which of Hemingway's novels is set during the Spanish Civil War?
A) For Whom the Bell Tolls
B) To Have and Have Not
C) A Farewell to Arms
D) The Sun Also Rises
  • 9. In which year was Hemingway awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for 'The Old Man and the Sea'?
A) 1975
B) 1960
C) 1948
D) 1953
  • 10. Which literary movement is Hemingway associated with?
A) Transcendentalism
B) Lost Generation
C) Beat Generation
D) Romanticism
  • 11. What was the title of Hemingway's only full-length play?
A) The Old Man at the Bridge
B) The Killers
C) The Fifth Column
D) A Clean Well-Lighted Place
  • 12. Which Hemingway novel features the character Nick Adams?
A) Islands in the Stream
B) Across the River and Into the Trees
C) In Our Time
D) The Garden of Eden
  • 13. What was Hemingway's profession before becoming a full-time writer?
A) Soldier
B) Journalist
C) Engineer
D) Teacher
  • 14. What was the title of Hemingway's second novel published in 1929?
A) For Whom the Bell Tolls
B) The Sun Also Rises
C) The Old Man and the Sea
D) A Farewell to Arms
  • 15. Which island did Hemingway live on in the 1940s before moving to Idaho?
A) Jamaica
B) Hawaii
C) Fiji
D) Cuba
  • 16. Which of Hemingway's works features the character Santiago?
A) A Farewell to Arms
B) The Sun Also Rises
C) For Whom the Bell Tolls
D) The Old Man and the Sea
  • 17. What was the cause of Hemingway's death?
A) Suicide
B) Car accident
C) Cancer
D) Heart attack
  • 18. Which of Hemingway's sons also died by suicide?
A) Patrick Hemingway
B) Jack Hemingway
C) Gregory Hemingway
D) Pauline Hemingway
  • 19. In which European city was Hemingway born?
A) Madrid, Spain
B) Vienna, Austria
C) Paris, France
D) Oak Park, Illinois
  • 20. Who was Hemingway's first wife?
A) Hadley Richardson
B) Mary Welsh
C) Pauline Pfeiffer
D) Martha Gellhorn
  • 21. Who was depicted as the protagonist in Hemingway's novel 'A Farewell to Arms'?
A) Jake Barnes
B) Frederic Henry
C) Santiago
D) Robert Jordan
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