Hemingway Trivia
Test your iceberg theory knowledge and see if you have the direct, punchy grit to survive a marlin fight or a Paris deadline.
EXAMPLE QUESTIONS
In Hemingway’s novella The Old Man and the Sea, what is Santiago’s occupation?
Fisherman
What unusual feature are many cats descended from Ernest Hemingway’s first cat, Snowball, known for having?
Six toes
Which Hemingway novel features Gertrude Stein’s famous epigraph, “You are all a lost generation”?
The Sun Also Rises
In For Whom the Bell Tolls, what is the name of the American explosives expert assigned to destroy a bridge during the Spanish Civil War?
Robert Jordan
From the basement of which famous Paris hotel did Hemingway recover old notebooks that became the raw material for his memoir?
Hôtel Ritz