Ernest Hemingway is often viewed as part of Question 15Answera.American naturalismb.the lost generationc.the angry young mend.the anti-war generation

Ernest Hemingway's literary technique is often likened to an iceberg. Stylistically the stories we read in class are Question 23Answera.expressionist and fragmentedb.subjective and climacticc.direct and moralisticd.minimalist and suggestive

Lost Generation writers who wrote about World War I differed from earlier authors in that they:A.abandoned rationality in order to depict surreal situations.B.worked to build popular support for their governments.C.did not describe war as heroic or glorious for soldiers.D.promoted revolutionary economic and political agendas.SUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

What insight about Santiago's character does Hemingway's physical description offer the reader in The Old Man and the Sea? aThat he should be less foolish and retire. bThat he should wear more sunscreen. cThat he has led a life without much comfort yet remains happy. dThat he is not very physically capable to be sailing on his own.

Authors use physical traits, private thoughts, behavior, and conversations to define their characters. In which of the following excerpts does Ernest Hemingway use characterization to define the narrator in "In Another Country"?  A. But I stayed good friends with the boy who had been wounded his first day at the front, because he would never know now how he would have turned out; so he could never be accepted either, and I liked him because I thought perhaps he would not have turned out to be a hawk either. B. We were all at the hospital every afternoon, and there were different ways of walking across the town through the dusk to the hospital. Two of the ways were alongside canals, but they were long. C. My knee did not bend and the leg dropped straight from the knee to the ankle without a calf, and the machine was to bend the knee and make it move as riding a tricycle. But it did not bend yet, and instead the machine lurched when it came to the bending part. D. The major, who had been a great fencer, did not believe in bravery, and spent much time while we sat in the machines correcting my grammar. He had complimented me on how I spoke Italian, and we talked together very easily.

Writers in the post–World War I Lost Generation often created works that expressed:A.the importance of social harmony after the war.B.cynicism and disillusionment toward postwar society.C.support for policies meant to create economic equality.D.opposition to the rise of European totalitarian states.SUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS