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    Question 1: At the age of seventeen Ernest Hemingway began working as a reporter for The Kansas City Star, where he remained for how long?
    A. one year
    B. six months
    C. tree years
    D. one month
    Question 2: On what date was Ernest Hemingway wounded, while performing his duties as a WW I ambulance driver?
    A. July 9, 1918
    B. July 8, 1918
    C. May 6, 1916
    D. June 8, 1916
    Question 3: In 1920 Ernest Hemingway accepted a job at this Canadian newspaper, where he met Morley Callaghan.
    A. The Ottawa Sun
    B. The Calgary Sun
    C. The Quebec Star
    D. The Toronto Star
    Question 4: In Our Time was first published in 1925 and marked Hemingways American debut. Which of the following short story titles is not part of this collection?
    A. Indian Camp
    B. The Battler
    C. The Killers
    D. Out of Season
    Question 5: In his 1940 novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway tells the story of Robert Jordan, a U.S. guerrilla warrior serving in the Spanish Civil War. who is given the assignment to blow up a bridge near what Spanish city?
    A. Segovia
    B. Valencia
    C. Madrid
    D. Barcelona
    Question 6: What Ernest Hemingway novel was published in 1950, following For Whom the Bell Tolls?
    A. Across the River and Into the Trees
    B. The Sea When Young
    C. The Garden of Eden
    D. The Old Mean and the Sea
    Question 7: The Old Man and the Sea brought Ernest Hemingway enormous success and earned him the Noble Prize in Literature in what year?
    A. 1953
    B. 1960
    C. 1954
    D. 1952
    Question 8: This Ernest Hemingway book, published posthumously, tells the story of a bullfighter named Antonio Ordonez.
    A. Under Kilimanjaro
    B. A Movable Feast
    C. The Dangerous Summer
    D. Islands in the Stream
    Question 9: Ernest Hemingway belonged to this group of expatriate American writers, who lived in Paris from the end of World War I till the beginning of the Great Depression.
    A. The Lost Generation
    B. The G.I. Generation
    C. The Greatest Generation
    D. The Missionary Generation
    Question 10: The novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, written by Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel GarcĂ­a MĂ¡rquez, was first published in Spanish. What nationality is MĂ¡rquez?
    A. Mexican
    B. Colombian
    C. Chilean
    D. Brazilian
    Question 11: What dystopian novel is set in Oceania, an intercontinental super-state ruled by an enigmatic dictator?
    A. Nine Tomorrows
    B. Fahrenheit 451
    C. Nineteen Eighty-Four
    D. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
    Question 12: Name the author of the 19th century novels A Captain at Fifteen, Around the World in 80 Days and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
    A. Jules Verne
    B. Arthur C. Clarke
    C. Ray Bradbury
    D. Isaac Asimov
    Question 13: Which of the following novels by Agatha Christie features Belgian detective Hercule Poirot?
    A. Five Little Pigs
    B. Murder in Three Acts
    C. All of these
    D. One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
    Question 14: This post-World War II satirist wrote a popular anti-war novel, whose title has become a commonly used idiomatic phrase, referring to a a no-win situation or a double bind.
    A. Kurt Vonnegut
    B. Ray Bradbury
    C. George Orwell
    D. Joseph Heller
    Question 15: Which one of the main characters, depicted by Alexandre Dumas in The Three Musketeers, has a mysterious past connecting him with Milady de Winter, the female antagonist of the novel?
    A. dArtagnan
    B. Athos
    C. Portos
    D. Aramis