Hemingway Pop Quiz

1. Hemingway Pop Quiz Choosethe correctletter (A, B, C, or D)

2. $ 100 Since the 1920s, Ernest Hemingway liked to be called… A: Kiddo B: Papa C: Granpa D: Bro‘

3. Hemingway Look-alike Contest Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

4. $ 200 In the epigraph to The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway quoteshismentor Gertrude Stein saying: »You are all …« A: a beaten generation B: a lost generation C: a generation x D: fruitcakes

5. LOSTGENERATION Generation of authors writing after World War I (Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound) Loss of values (as a result of the disillusionment after WW I) Ezra Pound (1885-1972) Modernist poet Sense of feelinglost (loss of orientation) Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) Modernist writer, coined the term “Lost Generation” F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) Modernist/realist Novelist The Great Gatsby, 1925

6. The Great Gatsby(1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald Plot in a nutshell: In the summer of 1922, the narrator Nick Carraway, a Yale graduate and World War I veteran, returns to New York City and rents a house on Long Island - next to the mansion of a mysterious parvenu named Jay Gatsbywho has made a fortune through illegal activities during the Prohibition Era and is still in love with Daisy, the wife of his archrival Tom Buchanan. Believed to be the murderer of Tom’s mistress, Gatsby is finally shot in his villa; only few people attend the funeral. The American Dream (Gatsby is a ‘self-made man’ who makes it from rags to riches) Illusions (Gatsby’s world is a world of lies and surfaces) Main themes? Ending: “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther ... And one fine morning ---” What could the “green light” stand for? Greenback(U.S. dollar)  the world of money

7. MODERNISM Literary movement (ca. 1900 – 1940s) “Make it new” (E. Pound) ‘Modern’ world view (personality, individuality, self-empowerment) F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) Alienation from established values Experimentalways of representation (non-linear storytelling, play with perspectives) “A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.” (G. Stein) Hemingway – threshold between realism/naturalism and modernism Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

8. $ 300 A collection of short stories by Hemingway from 1927 is called… A: Men without Women B: Women without Men C: Men and Women D: Man or Woman?

9. Men without Women(1927) Collection of short stories by Ernest Hemingway

10. $ 500 In a 1958 interview, Hemingway told a reporter: »I alwaystry to write on the principle of the…« A: iceberg B: earthquake C: tsunami D: volcano

11. The Iceberg Principle “I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg ... It is the part that doesn't show.” Ernest Hemingway, 1958

12. Ernest Hemingway‘s “Best Piece of Prose Fiction”: For sale: Baby shoes, never worn. Flush fiction(short short fiction)

13. Hemingway is a modernistsince he … - plays with ourexpectations - challenges the reader in his/her imagination For sale: Baby shoes, never worn. Hemingway is a naturalistsince he … • restrictshis writing to the mostnecessaryaspects - emphasizes loss of control instead of agency (characters are ‘driven’)

14. Hemingway’s ‘Naturalism’ - Tradition of Stephen Crane (Maggie, “The Open Boat,” The Red Badge of Courage) - Harsh, ‘cruel’ realism, portrayal of ‘real life’ without embellishment (journalistic style) - Hemingway was a reporter for The Kansas City Star and later for various magazines during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) Main techniques & themes: - Understatement(focus on ‘facts,’ not on direct emotions) - Determinism(in contrast to the notion of free will) - Detachmentfrom the depicted events (nameless characters)

15. “HillsLike White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway (from Men without Women, 1927) Plot in a nutshell: The story takes place on a hot and dry day near a train station in the Ebro River Valley in Spain. A man (‘The American’) and his female companion (whom he calls ‘Jig’) have a long conversation apparently circling around the woman’s pregnancy and a scheduled abortion. Beginning: “The hills across the valley of the Ebro were long and white. On this side there was no shade and no trees and the station was between two lines of rails in the sun. Close against the side of the station there was the warm shadow of the building and a curtain, made of strings of bamboo beads, hung across the open door into the bar, to keep out flies. The American and the girl with him sat at a table in the shade, outside the building.”

16. Main Themes Characters are designed as archetypes(“the American” / “the girl”) sense of distance  notion of universality Notion of being “driven” (the man tells the girl, “I’ve known lots of people that have done it”) – underlying theme of abortion Indifference and lack of free will (The girl says, “I don’t care about me”) Style Short sentences / concise dialogue (many aspects remain hidden in the narrative gaps / “iceberg technique”) Focus on the unusual details of an incident ( journalistic mode of narration)

17. $ 1,000 Hemingway was born on the outskirts of… A: New Orleans B: Los Angeles C: New York D: Chicago

19. $ 2,000 During World War I, Hemingway served as an ambulancedriver for the Red Cross in… A: France B: Austria C: Germany D: Italy

20. A Farewell to Arms (1929) (Semi-autobiographical novel about an American serving in the Italian Army)

21. $ 4,000 Hemingway never… A: activelyfoughtin war B: drank a lot C: went on a hunting trip D: smokedheavily

23. Participation in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) Hemingway was a war correspondent during the Spanish Civil War and actively fought against the Fascist regime of dictator Francisco Franco. For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) (Romantic novel about the Spanish Civil War) Plot in a nutshell: Robert Jordan, a young American, fights in the Spanish Civil War for the “International Brigades.” He joins a group of Republican guerilla fighters in the Sierra de Guadarrama(a mountain range between Madrid and Segovia), where he meets the cowardishPablo, his tough wife Pilar, and the beautiful Maríawho was raped by the fascistsand with whom Robert falls in love. When he becomeswounded, in hisattempt to blowup a bridge, Robert tellshisfriends to continuetheirescape, while he, alreadydying, lies in an ambushwaiting for theirpursuers.

24. For Whom the Bell Tolls(dir. Sam Wood, 1943, based on the 1940 novel by Ernest Hemingway) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLDeLqYypw8

25. $ 8,000 In 1931, he moved to… A: Sydney, Australia B: Nuremberg, Germany C: Key West, Florida D: Johannesburg, South Africa

26. Key West, Florida

27. $ 16,000 »All modern literature«, Hemingway oncesaid, »comes from onebook, …« A: Jack London‘s The Sea-Wolf B: James Fenimore Cooper‘sThe Prairie C: Nathaniel Hawthorne‘s The Scarlet Letter D: Mark Twain‘sHuckleberry Finn

29. $ 32,000 Hemingway‘sautobiography of hisyears in France is named… A: Diner B: La Grand Bouffe C: Dolce Vita D: A Moveable Feast

30. Paris in the 1920s (Hemingway fictionalizedhisyears in Paris in hisnovelThe Sun Also Rises, 1926) Art Circle (Gertrude Stein takingcare of Hemingway‘sson)  Woody Allen‘sMidnight in Paris, 2010)

31. $ 64,000 At the end of the movie Se7en, Morgan Freeman quotes the lines »world, fine, place« from Hemingway‘s novel … A: The Sun Also Rises B: For Whom the Bell Tolls D: The Old Man and the Sea C: A Farewell to Arms

33. $ 125,000 Next to a photograph of 2-year old Ernest Hemingway, his mother wrote … A: »spring child« B: »summer girl« C: »autumn boy« D: »winter kid«

35. $ 250,000 Which name did Hemingway give to his boat? A: Anselmo B: Primitivo C: Maria D: Pilar

37. $ 500,000 With which author did Hemingway break upfriendship in 1937, despite all warnings? A: Scott Fitzgerald B: William Faulkner C: John Dos Passos D: Ezra Pound

39. $ 1,000,000 Who committedsuicide with an old Civil War pistol? A: Hemingway‘s father B: Hemingway‘shero Robert Jordan C: Hemingway‘s second wife Pauline Pfeiffer D: Hemingway himself

40. Death as Constant Presence in Hemingway’s Life and Writings

41. “The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber” by Ernest Hemingway (Cosmopolitan magazine, Sept. 1936) Plot in a nutshell: Francis Macomber and his estranged wife Margot are on a big-game safari in the African plain, together with their guide Robert Wilson, who has a one-night stand with Macomber’s wife. Tortured by his own cowardice in the face of a wounded lion (from which he ran away), Macomber decides to play it ‘tough’ next time during a buffalo hunt, but is shot by his own wife while standing in front of the wounded animal. Beginning: “It was now lunch time and they were all sitting under the double green fly of the dining tent pretending that nothing had happened.” tense atmosphere shadow of Macomber’s ‘emasculation’

42. “The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber” by Ernest Hemingway (Cosmopolitan magazine, Sept. 1936) Main themes? Gender Masculinity vs. Femininity (Francis oscillates between ‘cowardice’ and ‘courage’) Power struggle between men and women (as Francis becomes more courageous, Margot gets more nervous) Class Upper class vs. lower class (Francis and his wife are rich, the African laborers are poor) Race ‘Sameness’vs. ‘otherness’ (all main characters are white  setting of Africa as terra incognita)

43. Importantworks by Hemingway In Our Time(1925) (first collection of short stories which established the “Hemingway style”) The Sun Also Rises (1926) (novel about American expatriates living in Paris) Death in the Afternoon (1932) (non-fictional work about Spanish bullfighting) The Old Man and the Sea (1952) (nobel-prize winning novel)

44. The Old Man and the Sea(1952) by Ernest Hemingway “A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” Man cannot win the battle against nature, but has to keep his dignity (“grace under pressure”)

45. Other ‘Modernist’ Writers • John Dos Passos (1896-1970)especially Manhattan Transfer (1925) (on the desperation of immigrants in New York) • William Faulkner (1897-1962)especially The Sound and the Fury (1929) and Light in August (1932) (on the abysses of American society in the South) Typical features: - Harsh portrayal of social reality(no embellishment, claim to authenticity) - Characters are controlled by external forces or fate (determinism) - Many different perspectives (even that of a mentally handicapped person)