Early Life
Late Life
Noir Genre
Accomplishments
The Killers
100
Ernest Hemingway's birthplace.
Where is Oak Park, IL?
100
The amount of wives he had.
What is 4? (what a question...)
100
This theme is prevalent in many noir novels and stories.
What is corruption? (that's a pretty deep question isn't it?)
100
He worked as a war correspondent during this war.
What is the Spanish Civil War?
100
The genre of this story.
What is the hardboiled noir genre?
200
He served here during the Great War.
Where is the Italian Front?
200
His forth wife.
Who is Mary Welsh?
200
This was an example of stories that grew out of American pulp magazines.
What is the "Black Mask?"
200
An award he won for Italian military service.
What is the Silver Medal of Military Valor?
200
The manager of the diner in the beginning.
Who is George?
300
His second wife.
Who is Pauline Pfeiffer?
300
This is the decade when his mental health started to deteriorate.
What is the 1950s?
300
It is considered the first Hardboiled Noir story.
What is “The False Burton Combs?”
300
A prize he was awarded during WWII.
What is the Bronze Star?
300
He is a recurring Hemingway character that makes an appearance in this story.
Who is Nick Adams?
400
A European city that he lived in several times.
What is Paris?
400
his third wife.
Who was Martha Gellhorn?
400
This term refers to the tough and masculine nature of the genre.
What is “hardboiled?"
400
It was an award for his work, "The Old Man and the Sea."
What is the Pulitzer Prize?
400
Nick loses these by the end of the story.
What is his innocence?
500
He moved here after his second marriage.
What is Kansas City?
500
The age he committed suicide at.
What is 61 years old?
500
The genre follows the traditional mystery fiction norms except for these themes.
What is moral disillusionment from crime and violence?
500
One of the awards he won during the 1950s.
What is a Nobel Prize?
500
Reasons this story is not like other noir novels.
What is... -a minimalist story -a plain story with an ordinary setting -a somewhat naive/innocent protagonist
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