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Ernest Hemingway Biography

About Hemingway's Short Stories

Summary and Analysis by Short Story

"Indian Camp"
"The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife"
"The End of Something"
"The Three-Day Blow"
"The Killers"
"A Way You'll Never Be"
"In Another Country"
"Big Two-Hearted River: Part I"
"Big Two-Hearted River: Part II"
"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"
"Hills Like White Elephants"
"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"
"The Snows of Kilimanjaro"

Character List

"Indian Camp"
"The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife"
"The End of Something"
"The Three-Day Blow"
"The Killers"
"A Way You'll Never Be"
"In Another Country"
"Big Two-Hearted River — Parts I & II"
"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"
"Hills Like White Elephants"
"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"
"The Snows of Kilimanjaro"

Character Analysis

Nick Adams
Francis Macomber
Margot Macomber
Harry
Helen

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Hemingway's Style

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1:  "Indian Camp" is known as what kind of story?

a. A love story

b. A coming-of-age story

c. An initiation story

d. A swashbuckler
2:  Why does Dr. Adams fire the Indians in "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife"?

a. They insult Dr. Adams's wife and family.

b. They steal firewood from Dr. Adams.

c. They criticize Dr. Adams for performing a cesarean delivery of a baby.

d. They joke that Dr. Adams is stealing the logs.
3:  In "The End of Something," why does Nick Adams break up with Marjorie?

a. Nick is bored with the relationship.

b. Nick has started dating someone else.

c. Nick's friends tease him about Marjorie.

d. Nick's father doesn't approve of Marjorie.
4:  In "The Killers," why does Nick decide to leave Summit?

a. His father is sending him off to college.

b. His breakup with Marjorie didn't go well.

c. He can't bear the thought of Ole Andreson waiting to be killed.

d. Ole Andreson asks him to come with him to escape the killers.
5:  Which story begins, "In the fall the war was always there, but we did not go to it any more"?

a. "A Farewell to Arms"

b. "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"

c. "A Way You'll Never Be"

d. "In Another Country"
6:  In "Big Two-Hearted River," how does Nick decide to deal with his war experiences?

a. He isolates himself from humanity and seeks the recuperative powers of nature.

b. He returns home to spend time with his family and his girlfriend Marjorie.

c. He starts writing a book about his experiences in the war.

d. He visits the family of a fellow soldier who was killed in the war.
7:  In "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," the young waiter says "an old man is (complete the sentence)"

a. "an unworthy burden"

b. "a nasty thing"

c. "an unclean soul"

d. "a waste of space"
8:  What does Harry dream about in "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"?

a. A rescue plane taking him to the summit of Kilimanjaro.

b. A rescue plane taking him and his wife back to Nairobi.

c. A leopard attacking the camp while they sleep.

d. His wedding to his wife Helen.
9:  What is the meaning of "Ngàje Ngài"?

a. Beware the Leopard

b. House of the Holy

c. House of the Leopard

d. House of God
10:  What secret does Harry never confess to Helen?

a. He was unfaithful to her.

b. He never loved her.

c. He gave his last morphine pills to Williamson.

d. He lived in a poor neighborhood of Paris when he was a boy.
11:  What is Harry referring to when he says, "Never believe any of that about a scythe and a skull"?

a. The use of mysticism to cheat death

b. The traditional, African symbols of death

c. The traditional, Western symbols of death

d. The legend of what lay at the summit of Kilimanjaro
12:  Who says the following: "We all take a beating every day . . . one way or another."

a. Robert Wilson

b. Ole Anderson

c. Francis Macomber

d. Nick Adams



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