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  Ernest Hemingway's first short story was titled:
"Up in _______." 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 214 times
Correct: 99 times (30.2%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 115 times (35.1%)
Skipped: 114 times (34.8%)
  Ernest Hemingway is buried in this state where he committed suicide.

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Answered: 244 times
Correct: 117 times (39.3%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 127 times (42.6%)
Skipped: 54 times (18.1%)
  What was the protagonist's name in Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls?

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Answered: 373 times
Correct: 239 times (48.5%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 134 times (27.2%)
Skipped: 120 times (24.3%)
  Ernest Hemingway's home known as Finca Vigía is located in . . . . see if you know the answer
Answered: 204 times
Correct: 79 times (28.9%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 125 times (45.8%)
Skipped: 69 times (25.3%)
  What Spanish city did Ernest Hemingway make famous in The Sun Also Rises?

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Answered: 1395 times
Correct: 890 times (52.9%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 505 times (30.0%)
Skipped: 287 times (17.1%)
  Which phrase was coined to identify authors and poets living in Paris after the First World War and includes Ernest Hemingway, F Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, Sherwood Anderson, Waldo Peirce, and John Dos Passos?
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Answered: 20225 times
Correct: 13902 times (60.4%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 6323 times (27.5%)
Skipped: 2797 times (12.1%)
  Which of the following was not written by Ernest Hemingway? see if you know the answer
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Correct: 6342 times (75.5%)
Difficulty: easy
Incorrect: 1469 times (17.5%)
Skipped: 591 times (7.0%)
  Which was NOT written by Ernest Hemingway?
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Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 5499 times (40.7%)
Skipped: 2286 times (16.9%)
  In The Old Man and the Sea, what is Santiago's favorite sport?
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Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 560 times (36.1%)
Skipped: 316 times (20.4%)
  In The Old Man and the Sea, who is Santiago's hero?
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Correct: 1079 times (69.7%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 174 times (11.2%)
Skipped: 294 times (19.0%)
  In The Old Man and the Sea, what does Santiago dream about?
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Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 928 times (61.8%)
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  In The Old Man and the Sea, Manolin loved the Old Man because...?
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Correct: 594 times (40.1%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 417 times (28.1%)
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  In The Old Man and the Sea, the Old Man said that he was similar to the turtle because of his ...?
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Correct: 74 times (5.1%)
Difficulty: really really difficult
Incorrect: 915 times (63.1%)
Skipped: 460 times (31.7%)
  In The Old Man and the Sea, the Old Man gained the nickname “The Champion” because of his ability to...?
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Answered: 956 times
Correct: 280 times (19.4%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 676 times (46.8%)
Skipped: 487 times (33.7%)
  In The Old Man and the Sea (Scribner Classics), a smell comes from across the harbor in the east from what? see if you know the answer
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Correct: 171 times (17.7%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 322 times (33.3%)
Skipped: 475 times (49.1%)
  Who wrote Gift from the Sea?

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Correct: 1388 times (45.4%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 714 times (23.4%)
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  Who was so impressed with Beryl Markham's memoir West with the Night that he commented "She can write rings around all of us?" see if you know the answer
Answered: 209 times
Correct: 132 times (45.1%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 77 times (26.3%)
Skipped: 84 times (28.7%)
  Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)'s husband Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke was also a friend and sometime hunting companion of ... see if you know the answer
Answered: 169 times
Correct: 64 times (25.3%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 105 times (41.5%)
Skipped: 84 times (33.2%)
  In Key West, Florida,Ernest Hemingway's cats were famous for what? see if you know the answer
Answered: 2749 times
Correct: 1697 times (46.1%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 1052 times (28.6%)
Skipped: 930 times (25.3%)
  Which of the following authors died after choking on the cap to a bottle of eye drops? see if you know the answer
Answered: 313 times
Correct: 210 times (42.9%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 103 times (21.1%)
Skipped: 176 times (36.0%)
[b:A Moveable Feast|4631|A Moveable Feast|Ernest Hemingway|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165447519s/4631.jpg|2459084] by [a:Ernest Hemingway|1455|Ernest Hemingway|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1175539371p2/1455.jpg] captures what it meant to be young, poor and writing in what city? A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway captures what it meant to be young, poor and writing in what city? see if you know the answer
Answered: 2009 times
Correct: 1666 times (70.5%)
Difficulty: easy
Incorrect: 343 times (14.5%)
Skipped: 353 times (14.9%)
  Which American writer was rejected for the US Army but instead became a pilot in the Canadian Flying Corps? see if you know the answer
Answered: 156 times
Correct: 50 times (21.8%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 106 times (46.3%)
Skipped: 73 times (31.9%)
  Who wrote All Quiet on the Western Front?
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Correct: 1424 times (60.7%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 710 times (30.3%)
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  The Naked and the Dead is by?

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Correct: 2988 times (49.0%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 1452 times (23.8%)
Skipped: 1662 times (27.2%)
  Other than World War I, what topic is central to much of Ernest Hemingway's book In Our Time? see if you know the answer
Answered: 149 times
Correct: 76 times (39.6%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 73 times (38.0%)
Skipped: 43 times (22.4%)
  With which famous writer was Lucia, the daughter of James Joyce, infatauted (though her love was not returned, which caused relations between her father and the said writer to sour)? see if you know the answer
Answered: 122 times
Correct: 45 times (24.5%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 77 times (41.8%)
Skipped: 62 times (33.7%)
  What writer killed his wife Joan while trying to play William Tell with a glass of water? see if you know the answer
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Correct: 395 times (31.6%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 384 times (30.7%)
Skipped: 470 times (37.6%)
  Kafka's Soup A Complete History of World Literature in 14 Recipes
In Kafka's Soup, which Author is not mentioned? 		see if you know the answer
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Correct: 19 times (11.8%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 85 times (52.8%)
Skipped: 57 times (35.4%)
  In an interview with "Rolling Stone", the then presidential candidate Barack Obama was asked to name the three books which 'really inspired' him. Which one of these did he NOT name? see if you know the answer
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Correct: 22 times (12.1%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 131 times (72.0%)
Skipped: 29 times (15.9%)
  Ernest Hemingway's one estate is still home to a number of mutant ____________? see if you know the answer
Answered: 425 times
Correct: 312 times (47.4%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 113 times (17.2%)
Skipped: 233 times (35.4%)
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