SparkNotes: In Our Time: Quiz

What does Nick Adams fish for in "Big Two-Hearted River"?

(A) Bass

(B) Scrod

(C) Haddock

(D) Trout

What do Hubert Elliot and Cornelia Elliot want more than anything?

(A) A dog

(B) A baby

(C) A mansion in Toulouse

(D) Some friends

What does Luz call her romance with the American soldier?

(A) Boring

(B) An illicit escapade

(C) A boy-girl affair

(D) A friendship

When Maera is dying, what does he notice?

(A) The ground is sticky.

(B) The crowd keeps cheering and yelling.

(C) The bull has been castrated.

(D) The medics carried him to the wrong place.

What does the priest tell Sam Cardinella before he is hanged?

(A) Pray

(B) Say goodbye to your relatives

(C) He will go to Hell

(D) Be a man

What does Nick Adams tell Marjorie that makes her leave him in "The End of Something"?

(A) That love isn't fun anymore

(B) That he sees one of the rods has caught a fish

(C) That Bill is coming

(D) That her sandwiches taste terrible

Why was Ad Francis criticized by the public?

(A) He fought dirty.

(B) He looked ugly from being punched so much.

(C) They thought he had married his sister.

(D) He got in a bar fight.

In "Out of Season," what does Peduzzi want to stop for?

(A) Marsala wine

(B) Pecorino cheese

(C) A sweater for the American wife

(D) Another fishing rod

In "My Old Man," what happens that causes Joe to comment, "When they get started they don't leave a guy nothing"?

(A) His horse was shot.

(B) His father died in a horse-riding accident.

(C) Some men bad-mouthed his father after he died.

(D) All of the above

In "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife," what religion is the wife?

(A) Methodist

(B) Unitarian

(C) Christian Scientist

(D) Jewish

What does Bill's father say makes drunkards?

(A) Drinking during the day

(B) Opening bottles

(C) Drinking alone

(D) Drinking whiskey

What does George call Nick in "Cross-Country Snow"?

(A) Mike

(B) Steve

(C) Greg

(D) Charlie

What is the mood of Nick's father and Uncle George after they deliver the baby in "Indian Camp"?

(A) Somber

(B) Nervous

(C) Triumphant

(D) Silly

In "Cat in the Rain," what does the Americans' hotel room look out on?

(A) The sea, the public garden, and a war monument

(B) The public garden, an amusement park, and a pet store

(C) A zoo and a lake

(D) A carousel and a war monument

What artist does the young man in "The Revolutionist" dislike?

(A) Carpaccio

(B) Michelangelo

(C) Mantegna

(D) Donatello

How does Nick Adams get off the train in "The Battler"?

(A) He climbs down onto the station platform.

(B) A bum punches him off.

(C) He jumps from a freight car.

(D) He asks the conductor to stop between towns.

What does Krebs' sister, Helen Krebs, want him to come watch in the afternoon?

(A) Her indoor baseball game

(B) Her indoor soccer game

(C) Her after-school play

(D) Her jacks championship

Why does Nick decide against going to fish in the swamp in "Big Two-Hearted River"?

(A) He is afraid he will get stuck.

(B) He doesn't think there will be any fish there.

(C) He remembers that Hopkins told him not to.

(D) He has plenty of time and doesn't want to rush anything.

What did Ernest Hemingway do in the war?

(A) He was a general commanding troops.

(B) He drove an ambulance.

(C) He dodged the draft, lived in Paris, and wrote.

(D) He fought in the trenches.

In "Big Two-Hearted River," Nick notices that the grasshoppers have changed color? What color are those grasshoppers now?

(A) Black

(B) Brown

(C) Green

(D) Off-white

What is Hubert Elliot's profession?

(A) Philosopher

(B) Professor

(C) Poet

(D) Hotel operator

Why does Nick's father send away the people that he has hired in "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife"?

(A) Because they brought the wrong tools.

(B) Because they said that he stole his wood.

(C) Because they asked for more money.

(D) Because they had been drinking.

In "Cross-Country Snow," why does Nick say that he and Helen might go back to America?

(A) Because they want to.

(B) Because she misses her family.

(C) Because he cannot find work.

(D) Because she is going to have a baby.

Where does Nick get shot?

(A) His spine

(B) His leg

(C) His arm

(D) His heart

Why is the American man nervous about his journey in "Out of Season"?

(A) He needs to catch a fish for dinner.

(B) His wife is drunk, and he is afraid she will embarrass them.

(C) He does not trust Peduzzi.

(D) Fishing is illegal, and he's afraid he'll be caught.