Q 01/05

An epigraph to The Sun Also Rises credits which American writer in Paris with the Lost Generation label?

A) Gertrude Stein

B) Edith Wharton

C) Sylvia Beach

D) Alice B. Toklas

Answer · why

A) Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein said she picked the phrase up from a French garage owner scolding a young mechanic. Hemingway set her remark beside a Bible passage and...

Q 02/05

Ernest Hemingway took the title The Sun Also Rises from a passage in which Old Testament book?

A) Proverbs

B) Ecclesiastes

C) Lamentations

D) Deuteronomy

Answer · why

B) Ecclesiastes

Ecclesiastes supplied the second epigraph, on generations passing while the earth endures. Hemingway told his editor that this endurance was the real ...

Q 03/05

Jake Barnes's war wound has left him with which condition, the unspoken barrier between him and Brett Ashley?

A) Shell shock

B) Deafness

C) Impotence

D) Amnesia

Answer · why

C) Impotence

Impotence is never named outright in the book: Jake says only that he got hurt in the war. He and Brett love each other, and both know the injury rule...

Q 04/05

After his last bullfight of the festival, Pedro Romero presents Brett Ashley with which part of the bull?

A) The tail

B) An ear

C) A horn

D) A hoof

Answer · why

B) An ear

An ear is the trophy, cut from the very bull that had killed a man during the run through the streets. Brett wraps it in one of Jake's handkerchiefs a...

Q 05/05

Which star played Lady Brett Ashley in the 1957 film of The Sun Also Rises, at Hemingway's own insistence?

A) Rita Hayworth

B) Grace Kelly

C) Lauren Bacall

D) Ava Gardner

Answer · why

D) Ava Gardner

Ava Gardner had dropped out and been replaced by Susan Hayward before Hemingway stepped in. She later called Lady Brett the most interesting character...