Hemingway
Nick Adams
Chapters
20th Century
100

Hemingway had this job during World War 1  

What is an ambulance driver? 

100

What is Nick Adams fathers Job?

What is a Doctor? 

100

Several chapters portray the bloody tradition of this Spanish spectacle, featuring real and fictional matadors like Maera and Villalta.

What is Bullfighting?

100

This devastating global conflict from 1914 to 1918 deeply traumatized a generation and serves as the primary backdrop for the wartime vignettes in In Our Time.

What is World War I

200

This Infamous Dictator was Ernest Hemingways fishing partner

Who is Fidel Castro?

200

In "Cross-Country Snow", Nick travels to Switzerland with his friend George to enjoy this winter sport before returning home.

What is Skiing?

200

The brief, unnumbered passages interspersed between the main short stories in In Our Time are commonly referred to by this literary term

What are vignettes?

200

The collection features several brutal vignettes depicting the evacuation of refugees at Adrianople during this specific 1919–1922 conflict in the Near East.

What is the Greco-Turkish War

300

Name 2 of Ernest Hemingway's hobbies 

What is Fishing, Hunting and Bullfighting?
300

 In "Big Two-Hearted River", Nick sets up his campsite near the burnt-out remnants of this Michigan town.

What is Seney?

300

What happened to the cabinet ministers in Chapter 5 (V)?

They were killed by a firing squad 

300

Hemingway's In Our Time was published in 1925, during a decade of profound cultural and social change in America. This specific decade is often referred to by this nickname, referencing the wild jazz music and rebellious youth culture of the era.

What is The Roaring 20s?

400

Hemingway won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature following the massive success of this 1952 novella about an old Cuban fisherman named Santiago.

What is The Old Man and the Sea?

400

"Cross-Country Snow," Nick reveals to his skiing companion George that he must move back to America because his wife, named this, is pregnant.

Who is Helen?

400

Where was Nick Adams on his body in Chapter VI (6)?

What is the spine? 

400

While Hemingway and the Lost Generation were expatriating themselves to Paris in the 1920s, a parallel flowering of African American literature, music, and art was taking place in a New York City neighborhood. Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston were writers during this event.

What is The Harlem Renaissance? 

500

What newspaper did Ernest Hemingway work at before he started writing books?

What is the Kansas City Star?

500

Wounded against the wall of a church in Fossalta, Italy, Nick Adams famously tells his comrade Rinaldi that he and Rinaldi have made this specific kind of "peace."

What is Separate Peace? 

500

The vignettes are known for their extreme brevity and journalistic tone. They are widely considered to be the birthplace of this distinctly minimalist literary style.

What is the iceberg theory 

500

The assassination of this Austro-Hungarian heir apparent and his wife, Sophie, in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, served as the immediate catalyst for World War I.

Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?

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