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Exploring the Life and Legacy of Ernest Hemingway

This quiz assesses knowledge about Ernest Hemingway's life, family, health, and literary contributions, enhancing understanding of his historical context.

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1 Charles 'Buck' Lanaham as it drove toward Paris", and he led a small band of village militia in ________ outside of Paris.

2 Other members of Hemingway's immediate family also committed ________: his father Clarence Hemingway; his sister Ursula; and his brother Leicester.

3 Hemingway had permanent residences in Key West, Florida, and ________ during the 1930s and 40s, but in 1959 he moved from Cuba to Idaho, where he committed suicide in the summer of 1961.

4 [119] He had been receiving treatment for high blood pressure and liver problems, and he may have believed he was going to be treated for ________.

5 Where was Ernest Hemingway born?

6 [103] A year later he wrote the draft of ________ in eight weeks, considering it "the best I can write ever for all of my life".

7 [126] Hemingway's father may have had the genetic disease ________, in which the inability to metabolize iron culminates in mental and physical deterioration.

8 When he left Spain, Hemingway travelled straight to Idaho; that November he was admitted to the ________ in Minnesota.

9 What does the following picture show?  Ernest and Mary Hemingway are buried in the town cemetery in Ketchum, Idaho.   Statue of Hemingway by José Villa Soberón, El Floridita bar in Havana, with a photo of Hemingway awarding Fidel Castro a prize in a fishing contest in 1960 (after the Cuban revolution) on the wall.   From left: Marcelline, Sunny, Clarence, Grace, Ursula and Ernest (1905).   Hemingway and sons Patrick (left) and Gregory, with three cats at Finca Vigía ca. 1942–1943. The Hemingways kept cats in Cuba 1942–1960. The polydactyl cats at Hemingway's Key West house arrived after the family's departure in 1940.

10 Ernest Hemingway, Cuban Missile Crisis and Pan American World Airways are all:

💡 Interesting Facts

  • American artist Tony Sisti (1901–1983) traveled with Ernest Hemingway and was also a New York State boxing champion.
  • Dateline: Toronto, a collection of Ernest Hemingway's newspaper writings for the Toronto Star in the early 1920s, contained themes and ideas later used in The Old Man and the Sea and The Sun Also Rises.
  • the $7m (£4.2m) estate of Gregory Hemingway, the youngest son of Ernest Hemingway, could not be left to his wife because of the same-sex marriage laws in Florida.
  • the Iceberg Theory refers to Ernest Hemingway's distinctive writing style.
  • when Romanian diplomat Mihail Fărcăşanu published in the newspaper a translation of Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, the communist press called Fărcăşanu a fascist.
  • the North American Newspaper Alliance, a major news syndicate, hired Ernest Hemingway to report on the Spanish Civil War in 1937.
  • Patrick Hemingway, the son of Ernest Hemingway, owned a safari business in Tanzania during the 1950s.
  • Leela Majumdar, author of children's books, translated Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea into Bengali.
  • Ernest Hemingway's True at First Light, a book about his 1953 safari, was not published until almost 40 years after his death.
  • Ernest Hemingway's 1950 novel Across the River and into the Trees was serialized in Cosmopolitan Magazine from February to May of that year.
  • Ernest Hemingway's wife Hadley Richardson (pictured) lost a suitcase containing his early manuscripts at a Paris train station in 1922.
  • Hall of Fame jockey Tod Sloan was the "Yankee Doodle" in the George M. Cohan Broadway musical "Little Johnny Jones" and the basis for Ernest Hemingway's short story "My Old Man".
  • Horace Liveright published the works of numerous important authors, including Ernest Hemingway and T. S. Eliot, and hired Béla Lugosi for Dracula, but still died penniless.
  • "Indian Camp" (published in 1925) was the first Ernest Hemingway short story to feature the semi-autobiographical character Nick Adams.
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