Books Quiz - Author - Ernest Hemingway (Answers)
Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1899. His interest in writing began at a young age and he edited and wrote for his high school’s newspaper. After leaving school he worked for the Kansas City Star newspaper before he volunteered to serve as an ambulance driver in World War One.
After the war Hemingway worked again as a journalist but he also wrote fiction. His first book, Three Stories and Ten Poems, was published in 1923 and his first novel, The Torrents of Spring, three years later. He went on to write the classics, For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea, and to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. Sadly, he suffered with his mental health and he committed suicide in 1961.
How well do you know this tortured artist? See if you can answer these questions about the life and work of Ernest Hemingway.
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Oak Park is now a suburb of Chicago
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Spencer Tracy played the part in the 1958 film version
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The Torrents of Spring is subtitled A Romantic Novel in Honour of the Passing of a Great Race. It is a parody of the world of writers
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He was hit by mortar fragments and a burst of machine-gun fire
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The book is about the ceremony and traditions of Spanish bullfighting
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Hemingway worked first as a freelance journalist, then as a staff writer and finally as foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star between 1920 and 1924
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The book tells the story of a young American attached to a republican guerrilla unit during the Spanish Civil War. His job is to blow up a bridge during an attack on the city of Segovia
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Hemingway was awarded the prize "for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style"
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In 2006 Sloppy Joe's Bar was added to America's National Register of Historic Places
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Hemingway's father, brother and sister also died by committing suicide
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