Real aficionados will find this so easy but casual readers . . . not so much. Answers below!
1) Which Hemingway novel(s) were made into movies (Check all applicable)
- The Sun Also Rises YES
- Old Man and the Sea YES
- For Whom the Bell Tolls YES
- A Farewell to Arms YES
2) Number of wives
- Three
- Four X
- Five
- Two
Bonus point for first names (Hadley, Pauline, Martha, Mary)
3) What was Hemingway’s nickname for the Nobel Prize for Literature? THE IGNOBLE PRIZE
4) What animals populated his Cuban home? CATS and Dogs and chickens
5) As a writer, was the Hemingway the type to:
- get it down right the first time with few revisions or
- did he revise extensively YES
6) Famous couples in his books
- Jake and ? (BRETT)
- Robert Jordan and ? (MARIA)
- Frederic and ? (CATHERINE)
- the Colonel and ? (RENATA)
7) What was Hemingway’s personal nickname from the time he was 27? PAPA
8) Which book was Hemingway’s memoir and love story to the city of Paris? A MOVEABLE FEAST
9) In what state was Hemingway born? ILLINOIS
10) In what state did Hemingway die? IDAHO
11) Where do Hemingway’s original papers and most of his memorabilia reside? THE KENNEDY LIBRARY
12) To whom did Hemingway say “Never mistake movement for action.” MARLENE DIETRICH
13) Who was Hemingway’s closest Hollywood friend, starred in one of his movies, and who “made it to the barn” (their slang for ‘died’) before Hem, much to Hemingway’s grief. GARY COOPER
14) Who said that Hemingway needs a new woman for each new book? F. SCOTT FITZGERALD and Faulkner said something similar: that Hemingway seemed to feel he had to marry every woman he fell in love with.