1. The Old Man and the Sea is a short novel written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Cayo Blanco (CubA:) . It was the last major work of fiction written by Hemingway that was published during his lifetime. It was published in________?
A:) 1952
B:) 1953
C:) 1954
D:) 1955
springline- Correct option: A:) 1952
2. In 1953, The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and it was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to their awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Hemingway in _____?
A:) 1953
B:) 1954
C:) 1955
D:) 1956
springline- Correct option: B:) 1954
3. Santiago is an aging, experienced fisherman who has gone eighty-four days without catching a fish. He is now seen as ‘salao,’ the worst form of unlucky. Who is a young man whom Santiago has trained since childhood, has been forced by his parents to work on a luckier boat?
A:) Joe DiMaggio
B:) Perico
C:) Manolin
D:) Martin
springline- Correct option: C:) Manolin
4. Manolin remains dedicated to Santiago, visiting his shack each night, hauling his fishing gear, preparing food, and talking about American baseball and Santiago's favorite player, ________?
A:) Perico
B:) Martin
C:) The Old Man
D:) Joe DiMaggio
springline- Correct option: D:) Joe DiMaggio
5. On the eighty-fifth day of his unlucky streak, Santiago takes his skiff out early. By noon, he has hooked a big fish that he is sure is a marlin, but he is unable to haul it in. He is unwilling to tie the line to the boat for fear that a sudden jerk from the fish would break the line. With his back, shoulders, and hands, he holds the line for ______?
A:) one day and night
B:) two days and one night
C:) two days and nights
D:) one day
springline- Correct option: C:) two days and nights
6. Santiago gives slack as needed while the marlin pulls him far from land. He uses his other hooks to catch fish and a dolphinfish[a] to eat. The line cuts his hands, his body is sore, and he sleeps little. Despite this, he expresses compassion and appreciation for the marlin, often referring to him as a ________?
A:) Friend
B:) brother
C:) sister
D:) fellow
springline- Correct option: B:) brother
7. When the fatigued marlin begins to circle the skiff and Santiago, almost delirious, draws the line inward, bringing the marlin towards the boat also he pulls the marlin onto its side and stabs it with a harpoon, killing it ?
A:) On the first day
B:) On the second day
C:) On the third day
D:) on the forth day
springline- Correct option: C:) On the third day
8. Seeing that the fish is too large to fit in the skiff, Santiago lashes it to the side of his boat. He sets sail for home, thinking of the high price the fish will bring him at the market and how many people he will feed. The trail of blood from the dead marlin attracts______?
A:) Giant Oceanic Manta Ray
B:) Bony Fish
C:) Basking
D:) sharks
springline- Correct option: D:) sharks
9. Santiago berates himself for having gone out too far. He kills a great mako shark with his harpoon but loses the weapon. He makes a spear by strapping his knife to the end of an oar. He clubs two more sharks into submission and How many Sharks he killed?
A:) four more
B:) five more
C:) six more
D:) three more
springline- Correct option: D:) three more
10. Santiago reaches shore before dawn the next day. He struggles to his shack, leaving the fish head and skeleton with his boat. Once home, he falls into a deep sleep. In the morning ,Who finds Santiago?
A:) The Old man
B:) Martin
C:) Manolin
D:) Pedrico
springline- Correct option: C:) Manolin
11. A group of fishermen have gathered around the remains of the marlin. One of them measures it at 18 feet (5.5 m) from nose to tail. The fishermen tell Manolin to tell Santiago how sorry they are. A pair of tourists at a nearby café mistake the dead fish for a shark. When Santiago wakes, he donates the head of the fish to ____?
A:) Pedrico
B:) Manolin
C:) Joe DiMaggio
D:) Martin
springline- Correct option: A:) Pedrico
12. The fishermen tell Manolin to tell Santiago how sorry they are. A pair of tourists at a nearby café mistake the dead fish for a shark. When Santiago wakes, he and Manolin promise to fish together once again and Santiago returns to sleep, and he dreams of his youth and of lions on an_______?
A:) American Beach
B:) African beach
C:) Mexico Beach
D:) Indian Beach
springline- Correct option: B:) African beach
13. The success of The Old Man and the Sea made Hemingway an international celebrity. The Old Man and the Sea is taught at schools around the world and continues to earn foreign royalties. Written in 1951, The Old Man and the Sea is Hemingway's final full-length work published during his lifetime. The book, dedicated to _______?
A:) Gregorio Fuentes
B:) Hadley Richardson
C:) Charlie Scribner
D:) Mary Welsh
springline- Correct option: C:) Charlie Scribner
14. The Old Man and the Sea served to reinvigorate Hemingway's literary reputation and prompted a reexamination of his entire body of work. The novel was initially received with much popularity; it restored many readers' confidence in Hemingway's capability as an author. Its publisher, Scribner's, on an early dust jacket, called the novel a _______?
A:) new fiction
B:) new classic
C:) fresh Classic
D:) Fresh Literature
springline- Correct option: B:) new classic
15. Santiago is a Spaniard living in Cuba,’ Jeffrey Herlihy comments, and his ‘Spanish self is an absent but ever-present factor in the novel.’ After immigrating to Cuba in his 20s, he has adopted Cuban dress, food preferences, and ‘speaks two dialects of the _______?
A:) French language
B:) Germanic language
C:) Spanish language
D:) Mexican language
springline- Correct option: C:) Spanish language
16. Every night Santiago dreams about Spain, and this ‘nostalgic reminiscing—which is for the Canary Islands, not Cuba—evidences the resonant influences of his Spanish/ Canarian identity, foregrounding the migrant experience of the old man as a concealed foundation to the novella’. His biography has many similarities to that of, Who was Hemingway's first mate?
A:) Jeffrey Meyers
B:) Ezra Pound
C:) Charlie Scribner
D:) Gregorio Fuentes
springline- Correct option: D:) Gregorio Fuentes
17. Hemingway wanted to donate his Nobel Prize in Literature gold medal to the Cuban people. To avoid giving it to the Batista government, he donated it to the Catholic Church for display at the sanctuary at El Cobre, a small town outside Santiago de Cuba where the Marian image of Our Lady of Charity is located. The Swedish medal was stolen in the mid _____?
A:) 1980
B:) 1981
C:) 1982
D:) 1983
springline- Correct option: A:) 1980
18. Gregorio Fuentes, who many critics believe was an inspiration for Santiago, was a blue-eyed man born on Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. After going to sea at age ten on ships that called in African ports, he migrated permanently to Cuba when he was the age of_____?
A:) 20
B:) 21
C:) 22
D:) 25
springline- Correct option: C:) 22
19. Hemingway at first planned to use Santiago's story, which became The Old Man and the Sea, as part of an intimacy between mother and son. Relationships in the book relate to the Bible, which he referred to as _______?
A:) The Sea Book
B:) The Old Man Book
C:) The New Classic Book
D:) The Classic Sea
springline- Correct option: A:) The Sea Book
20. Hemingway mentions the real life experience of an old fisherman almost identical to that of Santiago and his marlin in On the Blue Water: A Gulf Stream Letter. Who considered the function of the novel's Christian imagery, most notably through Hemingway's reference to the crucifixion of Christ ?
A:) Jeffrey Meyers
B:) Charlie Scribner
C:) Waldmeir
D:) Hadley Richardson
springline- Correct option: C:) Waldmeir
21. Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and sportsman. His economical and understated style—which he termed the iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century ________ ?
A:) Non-fiction
B:) Philosophy
C:) Fiction
D:) Journalism
springline- Correct option: C:) Fiction
22. Hemingway adventurous lifestyle and his public image brought him admiration from later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s. He published seven novels, six short-story collections. How many non-fiction work he published?
A:) one
B:) two
C:) three
D:) four
springline- Correct option: B:) two
23. Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school, he was a reporter for a few months for The Kansas City Star before leaving for the Italian Front to enlist as an ambulance driver in World War I. In 1918, he was seriously wounded and returned home. His wartime experiences formed the basis for his novel _______?
A:) A Farewell to Arms
B:) In Our Times
C:) The Sun Also Rises
D:) To Have and Have Not
springline- Correct option: A:) A Farewell to Arms
24. In 1921, Hemingway married Hadley Richardson, the first of four wives. They moved to Paris where he worked as a foreign correspondent and fell under the influence of the modernist writers and artists of the 1920s' ‘Lost Generation‘ expatriate community. Three of his novels, four short-story collections, and three nonfiction works were published posthumously. Many of his works are considered classics of ________?
A:) American literature
B:) Greek Literature
C:) Spanish
D:) British Literature
springline- Correct option: A:) American literature
25. Hemingway maintained permanent residences in Key West, Florida (in the 1930s) and in Cuba (in the 1940s and 1950s). He almost died in 1954 after plane crashes on successive days, with injuries leaving him in pain and ill health for much of the rest of his life. When he was died ?
A:) 1958
B:) 1959
C:) 1960
D:) 1961
springline- Correct option: D:) 1961
26. Who explains, ‘Hemingway could not really tell his parents what he thought when he saw his bloody knee.’ He was not able to tell them how scared he had been ‘in another country with surgeons who could not tell him in English if his leg was coming off or not’?
A:) Reynolds
B:) J. Edger Hoover
C:) W.B. Yeats
D:) F. Scott Fitgerald
springline- Correct option: A:) Reynolds
27. Carlos Baker, Hemingway's first biographer, believes that while Anderson suggested Paris because ‘the monetary exchange rate’ made it an inexpensive place to live, more importantly it was where ‘the most interesting people in the world’ lived. In Paris, Hemingway met American writer and art collector Gertrude Stein, Irish novelist James Joyce, and American poet _____?
A:) Walt Whitman
B:) Ezra Pound
C:) Robert Frost
D:) T.S. Eliot
springline- Correct option: B:) Ezra Pound
28. Stein, who was the bastion of modernism in Paris, became Hemingway's mentor and godmother to his son Jack; she introduced him to the expatriate artists and writers of the Montparnasse Quarter, whom she referred to as the ‘Lost Generation‘—a term Hemingway popularized with the publication of _______?
A:) In Our Times
B:) A Farewell To Arms
C:) The Sun Also Rises
D:) For Whom the Bell Tolls
springline- Correct option: C:) The Sun Also Rises
29. Ezra Pound met Hemingway by chance at Sylvia Beach's bookshop Shakespeare and Company in 1922. The two toured Italy in 1923 and lived on the same street in 1924. They forged a strong friendship, and in Hemingway, Pound recognized and fostered a young talent. Pound introduced Hemingway to _______?
A:) Robert Frost
B:) Edgar Allen Poe
C:) William Faulkner
D:) James Joyce
springline- Correct option: D:) James Joyce
30. Who writes ‘that Hemingway's first stories, collected as In Our Time, showed he was still experimenting with his writing style and he avoided complicated syntax and about 70 percent of the sentences are simple sentences—a childlike syntax without subordination’ ?
A:) Toni Marrison
B:) William Faulkner
C:) Paul Smith
D:) Ezra Pound
springline- Correct option: C:) Paul Smith