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Ernest Hemingway

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Life

1. Ernest Hemingway was born in ________ in 1899.
2. His father was a ________, who later committed suicide.
3. As a child, he went hunting and fishing with his ________ in the Great Lakes region, and enjoyed boxing and rugby.
4. In 1917 he worked as a reporter for the Kansas City Star, where he learned the rules of 'pure ________ writing'.
5. He could not join the army in WWI due to poor eyesight, but became an ambulance driver for the Red Cross in ________.
6. He was wounded by a mortar fragment in ________.
7. He was presented with a medal for saving a wounded Italian ________ despite his own injuries.

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Life and works

1 After the war Hemingway was engaged as a foreign ________ in Paris, where he associated with the group of expatriate writers called the Lost Generation.
2 In 1924 he published In Our Time, his first collection of short stories, where his alter ego, Nick ________, first appears.
3 His first novel, The ________ Also Rises, features an exotic setting, and violent and courageous actions.
4 The novel A Farewell to Arms, published in 1929, is a ________ story set among the horrors of WWI.
5 Thanks to his second wife's generosity, Hemingway went on a hunting safari in Africa, on which he based The Green Hills of Africa and The ________ of Kilimanjaro.
6 The novel For Whom the Bell Tolls relates to his experience as a correspondent in the ________ Civil War.
7 In 1953 Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize with the novel The ________ Man and the Sea.

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Childhood and nature

1 Hemingway is not explicitly autobiographic, but his experiences acquire a universal value in his works.
2 The most important experience of his ________ was his encounter with nature.
3 He was fond of ________ and fishing, which he saw as a form of struggle against nature.
4 The driving forces in man's ________ against nature are life and death.
5 In his view, ________ is a codified set of actions to gain control of events.

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Hemingway's hero

A: He was modelled upon the author himself.

B: He faces death and danger with dignity.

C: He is sensitive to the chaotic world he lives in.

D: He is honourable and extremely courageous.

E: He wishes he were braver.

F: He is an outdoorsman.

G: He lives up to standards beyond the reach of ordinary men.

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Style

A: Hemingway employed writing as a means of reaching and understanding his own identity.

B: His style is dry and essential, with a simple syntax, concise dialogue and brief descriptions.

C: He only describes people, never landscapes.

D: His characters are revealed through long narrative sentences.

E: In his writings there is little introspection or analysis of personal feelings.

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A fascination with death

1 Hemingway had been fascinated by death and by ________ since childhood.
2 He completed seven novels, five of which end with the ________ of the male protagonist and one with the death of the heroine.
3 He began to suffer from ________ during the 1920s.
4 He thought that the cause behind his father's death was not ________, but the loss of money and his bad relationship with women.
5 He was wounded during WWI and this traumatic ________ was explored in many of his works.
6 He needed to test his ________ in many ways, for example by climbing into bullrings, hunting wild game and facing enemy fire.

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For Whom the Bell Tolls: plot

Robert Jordan is an American businessman who is an expert in explosives. When he joins the Loyalists during the Spanish Civil War, he receives the order to blow up a building controlled by the Fascists. Robert falls in love with María, who has been raped by a band of Communists. After dynamiting the bridge, he escapes but his bag falls on top of him, so his comrades leave him there, awaiting his death.

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For Whom the Bell Tolls: title

Which words or phrases relate to the title of the novel?

A: John Donne

B: John Milton

C: mortality

D: immortality

E: loss

F: peace

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For Whom the Bell Tolls: characters

1 Robert Jordan works as a soldier in the ________ Brigades.
2 He fights on the ________ side.
3 He feels that his father was a ________ in committing suicide.
4 He struggles to maintain his personal code of ________.

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For Whom the Bell Tolls: themes

Which words or phrases relate to the themes of the novel?

A: death

B: unemotional attitude towards death

C: emotions

D: courage

E: duties

F: prize

G: sin

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