Think you know Hemingway?
One of America’s most famous authors led a colorful life! Test your knowledge of Ernest Hemingway’s life and work with our fun quiz.
Ernest Hemingway Quiz
Results
#1. In WW1 Hemingway signed up to join the Red Cross in Italy, what was his job?
Unlucky! Hemingway was an Ambulance Driver for the Red Cross
#2. What was Hemingway’s first published full length novel (1926)?
Unlucky! The Sun also Rises was his first published novel
#3. In the first months of 1954, Hemingway had plane crashes on successive flights in which continent?
Unlucky! It was in Africa that Hemingway survived the two plane crashes
#4. Select all that were titles of Hemingway’s short story collections
Select all that apply:
Unlucky! the odd one out is Death in the Afternoon which was a non fiction novel about bull fighting
#5. Hemingway was married how many times?
Unlucky! He was married a total of 4 times
#6. In the 1940’s Hemingway lived for a time in which Caribbean country?
Unlucky! He lived in Cuba during the 1940’s
#7. Bullfighting was one on Hemingways’ great passion’s. In which Spanish city did he first discover it in 1924?
Unlucky! It was in Pamplona that Hemingway first saw Bull Fighting
#8. Which major literary prizes did Hemingway win?
Unlucky! He won both the Pulitzer and Nobel prize
#9. For Whom the Bell Tolls was set in which war?
Unlucky! It was set during the Spanish Civil War 1936-39
#10. Which Florida city was both home to Hemingway in the 1930’s and featured as the backdrop to the novel To Have and Have Not?
Unlucky! He lived in Key West where you can find the Hemingway House Museum.
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