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Where was Hemingway born?

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Oak Park, Illinois

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When was Hemingway born?

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July 21, 1899

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Who were Hemingway’s family?

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His mother was Grace Hall, his father was Dr. Clarence Edmonds Hemingway and he was the second of six

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Where did Hemingway get his love of the outdoors?

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From his summers spent throughout his childhood in northern Michigan where his father, an avid outdoorsman, taught him to hunt and fish

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What did Hemingway’s mother install in him?

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A love of music along with conservative Midwestern values

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Who was the dark queen of Hemingway’s inner world?

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His mother

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When did Hemingway decide to become a writer?

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In high school

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What writing did Hemingway do during high school?

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He contributed to the high school newspaper and literary magazineW

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Where did Hemingway’s older sister go to school?

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Oberlin College

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Where did Hemingway move after high school?

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Kansas City

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What job did Hemingway take while in Kansas City?

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A reporter with the Kansas City Star

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When did Hemingway turn 19?

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July 1917

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Why was Hemingway prohibited from joining the United States Army?

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Because of his poor vision

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When did Hemingway go to Italy as a worker for the Red Cross?

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April 1918

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What rank did Hemingway achieve while in the army?

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2nd Lieutenant

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What did Hemingway do in Milan Italy in June 1918?

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Help extricate women’s mutilated bodies from a destroyed munitions factory

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Where did Hemingway volunteer to go to the front lines?

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A Canteen near the Piave River

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How was Hemingway wounded?

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On June 8, 1918 he was wounded when a shell exploded near the dugout where he was delivering chocolates and cigarettes to the soldiers

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What happened to the other two soldiers in the dugout where Hemingway was wounded?

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One was mortally wounded and the other lost his legs

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How many wounds did Hemingway receive when he was wounded in Italy?

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200 plus

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What two medals did Hemingway receive?

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The War Cross of Merit and the Silver Medal of Military Valor from the Italian Government

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Who did Hemingway meet while recovering in the hospital from his wounds?

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American Red Cross nurse Agnes con Kurowskky

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When did Hemingway return from the States after his campaign in Italy?

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January 1919

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When did Kurowksy fall in love with an Italian officer and leave Hemingway?

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March 1919

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When did Hemingway go to Michigan after Kurowsky left him?

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Summer 1919 to fish

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Hemingway’s trip to Michigan in 1919 inspired what story?

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Big Two Hearted River

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When did Hemingway move to Toronto?

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In early 1920

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What job did Hemingway find in Toronto after he moved there?

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Free-lance writer for the Toronto Star

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Where did Hemingway celebrate his 21st birthday?

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In Michigan

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Why did Hemingway get kicked out of the summer cottage in Michigan by his mother?

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Because of his late night antics with his younger sisters and their friends

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When did Hemingway move to Chicago?

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Fall 1920

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When did Hemingway secure a job writing for a monthly newspaper in Chicago?

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December 1920

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32
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How many years older was Hadley than Hemingway?

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Eight years older

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When did Hadley and Hemingway become engaged?

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Spring 1921

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Who did Hemingway meet in Chicago other than his wife that would be important to determining his future?

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Sherwood Anderson

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How did Sherwood Anderson help Hemingway after they met?

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By encouraging him to move to Paris as well as providing letters of introductions for him to help advance his career

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36
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Heminway was the Toronto Str’s first what?

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European correpsondent

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When did Hemingway and Hadley sail for France

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December 1921

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When did Hemingway’s imagination return to at the end of his life?

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Paris 1920’s

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39
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When did Hemingway produce his most important work?

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1925 to 1929

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What did Hemingway refer to Paris as?

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His moveable feast

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Where did Hemingway live between 1921 and 1928 in Paris?

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In a cold-water flat above a dance hall and then in a flat adjoining a lumber mill

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Where was Hadley’s and Hemingway’s first son born?

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In Toronto

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43
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How many stories did Hemingway fill in the Toronto Star from 1922 to 1923?

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88

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Hemingway’s 88 stories in the Toronto Star was based upon what?

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Travels to the Genoa Economic Conference, Italian war sites where he interviewed Mussolini, to Constantinople to observe the Greco-Turkish war and to the peace conference in Lausanne as well as his experiences during World War One

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Whose bookshop did Hemingway go to when he arrived in Paris?

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Sylvia Beach’s Shakespeare and Company

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Beach’s bookshop was a gathering place for who?

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Expatriate writers including James Joyce and Ezra Pound

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How did Pound become a friend of Ernest Hemingway?

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In February 1922 he invited him to tea

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When Hemingway met Pound, what had Pound just finished doing?

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Editing Eliot’s The Waste Land

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What book was published in February 1922 and by whom?

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James Joyce’s Ulysses by Sylvia Beach

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What was Pound and Hemingway’s learning trade?

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Hemingway taught Pound how to box while Pound taught Hemingway how to write in a compressed, imagist style

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From February to July 1922 Hemingway became friends with whom?

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Pound, Beach, Stein, James Joyce, Lincoln Steffens and Wyndham Lewis

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When did Hemingway begin to publish in the little magazines?

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May 1922

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When did Hemingway publish a two page story in The Double Dealer?

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May 1922

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How many of Hemingway’s poems later appeared in Harriet Monroe’s Poetry?

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Six

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What event doomed Hemingway and Hadley’s marriage?

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Hadley packed all his manuscripts, typescripts and carbon copies in a suitcase which was stolen in December 1922

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Hemingway lost his suitcase full of his work on a way to what?

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His ski vacation

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What three works were not stolen when Hemingway lost his suitcase full of his works?

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My Old Man, Up in Michigan and the poems to be published in Poetry

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Who produced Hemingway’s first book, Three Stories and Ten Poems?

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Writer and publisher Robert McAlmon

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What was Hemingway’s first book?

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Three stories and Ten Poems

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How many copies of Three Stories and Ten Poems were produced for Contact Press?

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Three hundred copies

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When was Hemingway’s first book published?

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Summer of 1923

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What stories were in Three Stories and Ten Poems?

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Two salvaged from the stolen suitcase, Out of Season, six poems from Poetry and four new ones

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When did Hemingway publish his second work?

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March 1924

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What was Hemingway’s second work?

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In Our Time

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How many copies of In Our Time were produced by William Bird’s Three Mountain Press?

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170 copies

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How many sketches did Pound edit in 1924 of Hemingway’s?

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18 sketches

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What did Hemingway write about during one of his vinigrattes?

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The execution of six Greek ministers during the Greco-Turk war

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When did Hemingway meet Edward O’Brien?

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1923

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Who was Edward O’Brien?

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The editor of annual volumes of the best short stories in Rapallo, Italy

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O’Brien dedicated The Best Short Stories of 1923 to whom?

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Hemingway

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O’Brien accepted my Old Man into what volume of his?

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The Best Short Stories of 1923

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When was In Our Time published and by whom?

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By Boni and Liveright in the U.S. in October 1925

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In Out Time Hemingway was inspired by what work of James Joyce’s?

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Dubliners

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The brief vignettes from In Our Time were used by Hemingway as what?

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Interchapters thematically and symbolically connecting the longer stories, dour of which were new

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In In Our Time featured what pieces from Hemingway?

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Big Two-Hearted River, Indian Camp, The Three Day Blow, The Battler

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Who is Hemingway’s alter ego in Big Two-Hearted River?

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Nick Adams

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Where does Nick Adams in Big Two-Hearted River fish?

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Michigan

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The burned-over country through which Nick Adams hikes through in Big Two-Hearted River is a symbolic parallel to?

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Nick’s utter resistance to interior revelation

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Hemingway told Gertrude Stein that he intended t do the landscape in Big Two-Hearted River like who?

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Cezanne

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Hemingway believes that instead of telling or describing the country and river in Big Two-Hearted River he must?

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Make them

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Hemingway’s habit of making is attributable to the influences of?

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Pound and Eliot

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In Big Two-Hearted River the individual must?

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Find a way to go on living in our time in the aftermath of war and revolution

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What was the second sign of trouble between Hemingway and his wife Hadley?

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Her second pregnancy

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When did Hemingway and Hadley sail to America for the birth of their second child and on what ship and what was carried in their luggage?

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August 1923 on the Cherbourg carrying copies of Ulysses to smuggle into Canada and ultimately into the United States where it was banned

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When was John Hadley Nicanor Hemingway born and where?

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Toronto, Canada in October 1923

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Who had suggested to Hemingway that he and his wife go to Pamplona which had the beset bullfighting in Spain during the festival of San Fermin?

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Stein and Toklas

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According to Stein and Toklas where was the best bullfighting?

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In Spain, in Pamplona, during the festival of San Fermin

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What bullfights had Hemingway seen previously to going to Pamplona for the first time?

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Madrid the year before

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According to Hemingway is bullfighting a sport?

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No its a tragedy

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According to Hemingway what did bullfighting symbolize?

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A struggle between man and the beasts

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When did Hemingway return to Paris in 1924?

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January 1924

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In Paris in January 1924, Hemingway worked as what?

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Editor on Ford Madox Ford’s transatlantic review

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Who serialized Gertrude Stein’s the Making of America?

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Ford Madox Ford

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Gertrude Stein wrote as Alice in what story?

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Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas?

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In 1924 Hemingway wrote many of the stories he would later collect In Our Time, what were they?

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Indian Camp, The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife, Soldier’s Home and Big Two-Hearted River

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Why was Hemingway’s completition of Big Two-Hearted River delayed in 1924?

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A trip to Pamplona for the festival and to Burgeute for his fishing at the end of June through the end of July

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Between late 1924 and spring 1925 Hemingway published individual stories in what little magazines?

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Transatlantic Review, This Quarter, the Little Review

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What had Hemingway between March and June 1925?

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Signed his first commercial contract, had met Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, and read Fitzgerald’s newly published The Great Gabsy

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When did Hemingway return to Pamplona for a third time?

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July 1925

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Harold Loeb served as model for what character in The Sun Also Rises?

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Robert Cohn because he was a Jew

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What character in the Sun Also Rises was based off of Lady Duff Twysden?

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Lady Brett Ashley

102
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What two men were infatuated with Lady Duff Twysden?

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Loeb and Hemingway

103
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What did Hemingway initially entitle the Sun Also Rises?

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Fiesta

104
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When did Hemingway complete the first draft of The Sun Also Rises?

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September 1925

105
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What was the threat to Hadley and her marriage to Hemingway?

A

Pauline Pfeiffer

106
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When did Pauline Pieffer join the Hemingway household?

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During a winter vacation at Schruns

107
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Who did Hemingway blame for the breakup of his first marraige?

A

Pauline Pfieffer

108
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Hemingway changed publishers from the Boni and Liveright to?

A

Scibner’s

109
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Why did Hemingway change publishers?

A

Because Scribner’s editor Max Perkins had been courting him on the strength of promise of his manuscript The Sun Also Rises

110
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What was Heingway’s contract with Boni and Liveright?

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That the next three books that Hemingway wrote were their’s

111
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How did Hemingway get out of his contract with Boni and Liveright?

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By writing a scathing satire, The Torrents os Spring which attacked the publisher’s prominant author Sherwood Anderson

112
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When and where did Hemingway meet with Boni and Liveright to declare his contract null and void?

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New York, February 1926

113
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When did Hemingway and Pauline Pfieffer become lovers?

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March 1926

114
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Scott Ftizgerald wrote what about Hemingway and his women?

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That he needed to change the women in his life with each new major work

115
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When did the Hemingway’s announce their separation?

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August 1926

116
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When did The Sun Also Rises come out?

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October 22, 1926

117
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Several reviewers acknowledged that The Sun Also Rises was a?

A

Roman a clef

118
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Duff Twysden claimed what about her affair with Romero?

A

That she had not in fact slept with that bloody bullfigher

119
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What did Hemingway’s mother have to say about The Sun Also Rises?

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That it was one of the filthiest books of the year

120
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Who found that based off of The Sun Also Rises that Hemingway was the most exciting of contemporary American writers of fiction?

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Conrad Aiken

121
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When did Hemingway get his divorce officially?

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December 1926

122
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What did Hemingway promise Hadley in exchange for the divorce?

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All the royalties from the Sun Also Rises

123
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When did Hemingway marry Pauline Pfieffer?

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May 1927

124
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What 1927 stories by Hemingway appeared in Scribner’s magazine?

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The Killers, Another Country and A Canary for One

125
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What magazine did Fifty Grand come out in?

A

Atlantic monthly

126
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What magazine did Italy-1927 come out in?

A

new Republic

127
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Hills Like White Elephants came out in what magazine?

A

Transition

128
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What collection of short fiction was published by Hemingway in October 1927?

A

Men Without Women

129
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A New Slain Knight reached how many words before Hemingway abandoned it?

A

50,000 words

130
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When did Hemingway write the beginning of Farewell to Arms?

A

March 1928

131
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Where did Pauline want to have her baby in early 1928?

A

The United States

132
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Who did Hemingway learn about Key West from?

A

John dos passos

133
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When did Hemingway and Pauline sail to Key West?

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March 1928

134
Q

For how many years did Hemingway live intermittently in Key West?

A

12 years

135
Q

What were some of the work produced by Hemingway while at Key West?

A

A Farewell to Arms, Death in the Afternoon, Green Hills of Africa, to Have and Have Not and the beginning of For Whom the Bell Tolls

136
Q

Through April, May, June of 1926 Hemingway completed how many pages of A Farewell to Arms before the birth of his second son?

A

300 pages

137
Q

While Pauline recovered from a difficult birth where did Hemingway go?

A

Wyoming

138
Q

When did Hemingway complete the first draft of a Farewell To Arms?

A

August 1928

139
Q

When did Hemingway begin to move to Key West?

A

November 1928

140
Q

When did Hemingway fly to New York to pick up his son and what was his name?

A

In December 1928, Bubmy

141
Q

How long did Bumby stay with the Hemingway’s?

A

Six months

142
Q

Where did Hemingway receive news of his father’s suicide and what did he do with Bumby?

A

While on the train from New York to Florida and he left his child in the care of a porter for the rest of the journey to Florida

143
Q

Why did Dr. Hemingway commit suicide?

A

Because of financial trouble and illness

144
Q

When did Hemingway set up a trust fund for his mother so that he would be set for life?

A

In 1930

145
Q

When was the typescript of A Farewell to Arms completed?

A

In January 1929

146
Q

How much money did Max Perkins pay Hemingway for the serialization of a Farewell to Arms?

A

$16,000

147
Q

Who are the two major figures in A Farewell to Arms?

A

American Frederic Henry and British nurse Catherine Barkley

148
Q

Who is Henry a thinly disguised persona for in A Farewell to Arms>

A

Hemingway

149
Q

Why was A Farewell to Arms banned and where?

A

Because of its obscenities in Boston

150
Q

What happens to Henry in A Farewell to Arms?

A

He gets wounded, has an affair with Catherine and gets her pregnant ad after three months returns to the Italian Front and gets caught up in the retreat from the Battle of Caporetto, escapes execution and flees to Switzerland with Catherine where she dies and gives birth to a stillborn child

151
Q

When did the book form of Farewell to Arms get published?

A

September 1929

152
Q

By October 1929 how many copies had A Farewell to Arms sold?

A

33,000 copies

153
Q

Where did the Hemingway’s travel in 1929?

A

Cuba, France, Spain including Pampalona and then back to France

154
Q

How much was Hemingway paid for writing about bullfighting for the Fortune magazine?

A

$1.000

155
Q

What was the name of Hemingway’s nonfictional work on bullfighting?

A

Death in the Afternoon

156
Q

How did Hemingway receive a seriously broken arm in November 1930?

A

While hunting in Wyoming

157
Q

How much were the movie rights to A Farewell to Arms sold for?

A

$80,000

158
Q

How much was Hemingway’s take after he sold the movie rights to A Farewell to Arms?

A

$24,000

159
Q

When did the Hemingway’s find a house in Key West Florida?

A

In January 1931

160
Q

According to Hemingway the bullfighter and the writer were both artists who must exhibit?

A

Grace under pressure

161
Q

According to Hemingway, for one instant the bullfighter became?

A

Immortal

162
Q

When Hemingway traveled to Pamplona while working on Death in the Afternoon he and his wife were accompanied by?

A

American Jewish bullfighter Sidney Franklin

163
Q

What was the name of Pauline and Hemingway’s second son?

A

George

164
Q

When did Hemingway meet Jane Mason?

A

September 1931

165
Q

When did Hemingway’s affair with Jane Mason last from?

A

1931 to 1936

166
Q

When did Hemingway spend time fishing off the coast of Cuba?

A

The summer of 1932

167
Q

In December 1932 what story did Hemingway place in Scribner’s magazine?

A

A Clean Well Lighted Place

168
Q

How many stories had Hemingway completed that would be included in the collection Entitled Winner Take Nothing?

A

Fourteen

169
Q

What was Hemingway’s first attempt to write about lesbianism?

A

The Sea Change

170
Q

Hemingway made a deal with what magazine to write stories while he moved between Key West and Florida?

A

Esquire

171
Q

When did Hemingway and Pauline go to Africa for the first time?

A

November 1933

172
Q

The expedition to Africa by Hemingway formed a basis for what new stories?

A

The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Green Hills of Africa

173
Q

How much did Scribner’s offer Hemingway for Green Hills of Africa?

A

$4,500

174
Q

What accident did Hemingway suffer while fishing between spring and summer 1935 fishing of the coast of Bimini?

A

He shot himself in both legs while trying to kill a shark on deck

175
Q

Who was the protagonist of To Have and Have Not?

A

Henry Morgan

176
Q

When did Hemingway begin to suffer from depression and insomnia?

A

In January 1936

177
Q

When was Hemingway back to fishing off the coast of Bimini in 1936?

A

April

178
Q

In what magazine was The Snows of Kilimanjaro published in?

A

Esquire

179
Q

In what magazine was The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber published?

A

Cosmopolitan

180
Q

What happens in The Snows of Kilimanjaro?

A

Henry develops gangrene and dies as he drifts in and out of consciousness reflecting on his failure to write his greatest work

181
Q

What happens in The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber?

A

Macomber is a coward in contrast to the big game hunter who leads him and his wife on an African Safari. When a wounded water buffalo charges the group Macomber shoots him but is killed by his wife who can’t his the buffalo

182
Q

The Snows of Kilimanjaro and The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber exhibit what two classic Hemingway code of masculine conduct?

A

Grace under pressure, courage and honor

183
Q

When did Spain explode into a civil war?

A

July 1936

184
Q

How did Hemingway help the Spanish war effort?

A

By contributing money for two ambulances

185
Q

By November 1936 what novel was Hemingway close to finishing?

A

To Have and Have Not

186
Q

What two actors starred in the movie version of To Have and Have Not?

A

Humphrey Bogart and lauren Bacal

187
Q

What happens in to Have and Have Not?

A

Harry Morgan makes his living taking fishing parties out on the water off Key West and Cuba and he smuggles liquor and other illegal activities and dies

188
Q

Who was Hemingway’s third wife?

A

Martha Gelhorn

189
Q

How did Hemingway meet Martha Gelhorn?

A

In Sloppy Joes Bar in Key West in 1936

190
Q

How many trips to Spain did Hemingway make to Spain with Martha from March 1937 to November 1938?

A

Four

191
Q

Hemingway covered the Spanish Civil War for what newspaper?

A

The North American Newspaper Alliance

192
Q

Hemingway was working on what documentary film in Madrid while in Spain during the civil war?

A

The Spanish Earth

193
Q

When did Hemingway begin work on his novel, For Whom the Bell Toolls?

A

Early 1939

194
Q

What was the name of the farm that Hemingway and Martha moved to in April 1939?

A

La Finca Vigia

195
Q

While World War Two began where did Hemingway stay?

A

Cuba

196
Q

Martha was assigned by what magazine to go to inland in December 1939?

A

Colliers

197
Q

When Hemingway returned to Key West in December 1939 what happened to Pauline?

A

She took the kids to New York

198
Q

When did For Whom the Bell Tolls appear in print?

A

October 1940

199
Q

When did Hemingway work on For Whom the Bell Tolls?

A

May through August 1939

200
Q

Hemingway took the title for A Farewell to Arms from John Donnei’s?

A

Meditation XVII

201
Q

What happens in For Whom the Bell Tolls?

A

The protagonist Robert Jordan is given orders by a communist general to destroy a bridge. While at a guerrilla camp he meets and falls in love with Maria, a young women who has been brutally rape by fascists. Jordan is betrayed by the band’s leader but still destroys the bridge but is wounded when his horse is shot out under him and he waits for the fascist advance and the first lieutenant so he can shoot him with a machine gun

202
Q

When was Hemingway’s divorce with Pauline final?

A

November 1940

203
Q

Who starred in the movie edition of For Whom The Bells Tolls?

A

Gary Cooper

204
Q

Why did the Hemingway’s go to China?

A

To cover the Sino-Japanese war

205
Q

After America entered World War Two what did Hemingway do in Cuba?

A

Patrol its waters for German submarines

206
Q

When did Martha accept a post with Collier’s as a European war corespondent?

A

The Summer of 1943

207
Q

When did Hemingway finally agree to cover the war for Collier’s?

A

March 1944

208
Q

Who did Hemingway have an affair with while in London during the war?

A

Mary Welsh Monks

209
Q

What did Hemingway do to cover the war in Europe?

A

Fly on R.A.F. missions, land in Normandy on D-Day

210
Q

When did Hemingway divorce Martha

A

Early 1945

211
Q

When did Hemingway marry Mary?

A

March 1946

212
Q

What book would be Mary’s book?

A

The Garden of Eden

213
Q

How did Hemingway save Mary’s?

A

When she was undergoing a procedure and the doctors thought she was dead he stuck an IV tube into her arm and stabilized her

214
Q

When did Hemingway begin writing Islands in the Stream?

A

In spring 1948

215
Q

Who did Hemingway meet in Italy in December 1948 that he became infatuated with?

A

Adriana Ivanich

216
Q

Adriana Ivanich inspired who in Across the River and Into the Trees?

A

Renata

217
Q

When and where did Across the River and Into The Trees begin serialization?

A

Cosmopolitan, fall 1950

218
Q

Who was the protagonist in Hemingway’s across the River and Into the Trees?

A

Colonel Richard Cantwell

219
Q

When as Islands in the Stream posthumously published?

A

1970

220
Q

How did Hemingway plan to restore his reputation that was damaged by Across the River and Into the Trees?

A

By writing Old Man and the Sea

221
Q

How many words of The Old Man and the Sea had Hemingway finished by mid-February 1951?

A

26,000 words

222
Q

When did Hemingway’s mother die?

A

June 28, 1951

223
Q

When did Pauline die?

A

October 1, 1951

224
Q

When did Fulgencio Batista seize power in Cuba?

A

March 1952

225
Q

When did the Told Man and The Sea get published?

A

September 1951

226
Q

How many copies of Scribner’s magazine with The Old Man and the Sea sell in just 8 days?

A

5 milllion

227
Q

On September 8, 1951 how many copies of the novel Old Man and the Sea did Scribner’s sell?

A

50,000 copies

228
Q

What happens in The Old Man and the Sea?

A

Santiago the protagonist tries to capture a huge marlin but after securing it to the end of the boat it gets eaten by sharks and when he goes to sleep at nigh he dreams of lions in Africa, underscoring his courage

229
Q

When was Hemingway awarded the Pulitzer Prize?

A

1953

230
Q

When was Hemingway awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature?

A

In 1954

231
Q

Who would have the leading role in The Old Man and The Sea?

A

Spencer Tracy

232
Q

When did discussions for filming of The Old Man and the Sea begin?

A

April 1953

233
Q

How uch was Hemingway to receive from the movie The Old Man and the Sea?

A

$25,000 in royalties and $25,000 to supervise the photography of marlin fishing for a total of 50,000

234
Q

What happened in late January 1954 to the Hemingway’s while in Africa?

A

Their plane crashed and they were erroneously reported dead

235
Q

What happened to the second plane on the Hemingway’s African Safari trip?

A

It caught fire and he was reported as dead the second time

236
Q

While in Africa what injuries did Hemingway suffer?

A

A series of serious concussions

237
Q

When did Hemingway learn of his Nobel Prize?

A

October 28, 1954

238
Q

Who delivered the acceptance speech for Hemingway for his Nobel Prize?

A

American ambassador to Sweden John Cabot

239
Q

What was Hemingway’s Africa book?

A

True at first light

240
Q

What was the problem with filming The Old Man and the Sea?

A

Finding a giant Marlin so they had to buil a huge mechanical fish

241
Q

In 1955 how was Hemingway rendered sick?B

A

He had kidney infections and hepatitis

242
Q

How did Hemingway help Pound in the 1950’s?

A

By sending him money at St. Elizabeth’s hospital and singing a petition for his release from the institution

243
Q

When did Hemingway begin work on his memoirs?

A

February 1957

244
Q

What was the name of Hemingway’s memoirs and when were they posthumously published?

A

A Moveable Feast in 1964

245
Q

What movement did Hemingway contribute to while in Cuba?

A

The Communist Party lead by Fidel Castro

246
Q

What two awards did The Old Man and the Sea receive?

A

Oscar for Best Original Score and Spencer Tracy was nominate for Best Actor in a Leading Role

247
Q

Where in Idaho did the Hemingway’s buy a house?

A

Ketchumm

248
Q

Where did Hemingway celebrate his 60th birthday?

A

Spain

249
Q

When did Hemingway enter the Mayo Clinic and how was he traeted?

A

November 1960 and he was treated with electroshock therapy

250
Q

When did Hemingway attempt suicide for the first time?

A

April 1960

251
Q

When did Hemingway commit suicide?

A

July 2, 1960

252
Q

What did Hemingway’s wife Mary argue about his suicide?

A

That he had died while cleaning his gun

253
Q

What newspaper published a front page article about Hemingway’s death?

A

The New York time

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