Santiago usually had dream of:
(a) Tigers
(b) Cats
(c) Young lions
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Young lions
Old man’s favourite game was:
(a) Baseball
(b) Football
(c) Cricket
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Baseball
Ernest Hemingway was born in:
(a) 1892
(b) 1893
(c) 1900
(d) 1899
Question’s Answer: 1899
Ernest Hemingway pass away in:
(a) 1963
(b) 1962
(c) 1961
(d) 1964
Question’s Answer: 1961
The subject of the Hemingway’s novel “A farewell to Arms” is:
(a) Romance
(b) The Problem of Woman
(c) Futility of War
Question’s Answer: Futility of War
Hemingway was awarded “Nobel Prize for Literature” in:
(a) 1950
(b) 1955
(c) 1957
(d) 1954
Question’s Answer: 1954
Who was the principal friend of Santiago on the ocean?
(a) Dolphin
(b) Flying fish
(c) Birds
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Flying fish
Who is the author of the “The Old Man and the Sea (Novel by Ernest Hemingway)”?
(a) Bernard Shaw
(b) Jane Austen
(c) Ernest Hemingway
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Ernest Hemingway
Which is not a novel by Hemingway?
(a) The Old Man and the Sea (Novel by Ernest Hemingway)
(b) Pride and Prejudice
(c) The Sun Also Rises
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Pride and Prejudice
Earnest Hemingway’s father was a:
(a) Engineer
(b) Soldier
(c) Doctor
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Doctor
“The Old Man and the Sea (Novel by Ernest Hemingway)” received the “Pulitzer Prize” in:
(a) 1953
(b) 1952
(c) 1951
(d) 1954
Question’s Answer: 1953
Hemingway pass away by:
(a) Kidney Failure
(b) Heart Failure
(c) Committing Suicide
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Committing Suicide
For how many days, Santiago was unable to catch a fish?
(a) 87 days
(b) 85 days
(c) 86 days
(d) 84 days
Question’s Answer: 84 days
Ernest Hemingway’s mother was a:
(a) Housewife
(b) Musician
(c) Doctor
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Musician
After writing “The Sun also Rises” Hemingway became the voice of the:
(a) Children
(b) Lost Generation
(c) Young Generation
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Lost Generation
Ernest Hemingway, after finishing school wanted to become a:
(a) Doctor
(b) Soldier
(c) Architect
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Soldier
Who was Manolin?
(a) Old Man’s Son
(b) Old Man’s Student
(c) Old Man’s Nephew
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Old Man’s Student
Manolin’s parents ordered him to go in another boat because they thought:
(a) Old man was crazy
(b) Old man was bad
(c) Old man was unlucky
Question’s Answer: Old man was unlucky
Hemingway was rejected by army on account of:
(a) Liver Problem
(b) Kidney Problem
(c) Injured Eye
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Injured Eye
Who were the two American writers and critics, who helped him to find his literacy feet?
(a) T. S. Eliot and W.B Yeats
(b) Bernard Shaw and Ibsen
(c) Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein
The first novel of Hemingway was:
(a) A Farewell to Arms
(b) The Old Man and the Sea (Novel by Ernest Hemingway)
(c) The Sun also Rises
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: The Sun also Rises
Santiago had:
(a) A Son
(b) No Child at all
(c) Two Sons
Question’s Answer: No Child at all
What Santiago thought to say if he caught the fish?
(a) Twenty our father’s and twenty hail Mary’s
(b) Fifty our father’s and fifty hail Mary’s
(c) Ten our father’s and ten hail Mary’s
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Ten our father’s and ten hail Mary’s
When Manolin saw old man he:
(a) Smiled
(b) Laughed
(c) Wept
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Wept
The fish caught by Santiago was:
(a) Shark
(b) Dolphin
(c) Marlin
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Marlin
Santiago was:
(a) Anti-religious
(b) Religious
(c) Optimist
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Religious
When Santiago arrived home,Manolin decided to:
(a) Go in another boat
(b) Go with him for fishing
(c) Go alone
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Go with him for fishing
People in the town:
(a) Were shocked to see it
(b) Were jealous to see it
(c) Were surprised to see the Skeleton of fish
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Were surprised to see the Skeleton of fish
The restaurant in the town was called:
(a) Village
(b) Terrace
(c) Inn
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Terrace
Santiago’s wife was:
(a) Divorced
(b) Dead
(c) Killed
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Dead
How much the first shark ate up from the hunted fish?
(a) 20 pounds
(b) 50 pounds
(c) 40 pounds
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: 40 pounds
How many more sharks attacked the hunted fish?
(a) Five
(b) Three
(c) Four
(d) Two
Question’s Answer: Two
On his first day at sea, Santiago hung:
(a) Sydney
(b) Tokyo
(c) Havana
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Havana
The capital of Cuba is:
(a) 3 baits in the sea
(b) 4 baits in the sea
(c) 5 baits in the sea
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: 4 baits in the sea
The young lions in the novel are the symbol of:
(a) Strength
(b) Weakness
(c) Bravery
Question’s Answer: Strength
Manolin is the symbol of:
(a) Childhood
(b) Youth
(c) Innocence
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Youth
The “Marlin” caught by Santiago was:
(a) Eighteen Feet Long
(b) Ten Feet long
(c) Twenty Feet Long
Question’s Answer: Eighteen Feet Long
What does ‘cumulus’ mean?
(a) Clouds
(b) Rain
(c) Wind
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Clouds
The match lasted for:
(a) Three days and two nights
(b) Two days and two nights
(c) One day and one night
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: One day and one night
“The Old Man and the Sea (Novel by Ernest Hemingway)” is a story of the struggle of an:
(a) Young Man
(b) Boy
(c) Old Man
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Old Man
During his youth, Santiago had played “Hand Game” with a:
(a) Wrestler
(b) Negro
(c) Player
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Negro
Negro belonged to:
(a) Africa
(b) Cuba
(c) Cienfuegos
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Cienfuegos
Ernest Hemingway was a:
(a) Novelist
(b) Poet
(c) Dramatist
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Novelist
Santiago lived in:
(a) America
(b) France
(c) Cuba
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Cuba
The Old Man and the Sea (Novel by Ernest Hemingway)” is:
(a) A. Sonnet
(b) An Epic
(c) A Fable
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: A Fable
Santiago’s Condition on arriving home was:
(a) Terrible
(b) Good
(c) Bad
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Terrible
At the end, Santiago was still:
(a) Hopeless
(b) Hopeful
(c) Without Feeling
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Hopeful
What does novelette mean?
(a) A Novel
(b) Smaller than a Standard Novel
(c) Short Story
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Short Story
What does ‘Fable’ mean?
(a) An Elegy
(b) An Epic
(c) A Myth
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: A Myth
Santiago came back home with the:
(a) Whole Fish
(b) Half Fish
(c) Skeleton of Fish
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Skeleton of Fish
At the end, Santiago decided to:
(a) Change boat
(b) Leave fishing
(c) Quit fishing
(d) Go for fishing again
Question’s Answer: Go for fishing again
Santiago calls the baited fish by the name of:
(a) Sister
(b) Brother
(c) Friend
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Brother
What did ‘Santiago’ eat during his stay at sea?
(a) Vegetable
(b) Raw fish
(c) Fruit
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Raw fish
Which is not a novel by Hemingway?
(a) The Sun also Rises
(b) The Mill on the Floss
(c) Tess
(d) Both (b) and (c)
Question’s Answer: Tess
What does ‘Light Brisa’ mean?
(a) Light rain
(b) Cloud, which is sign of good weather
(c) Heavy rain
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Cloud, which is sign of good weather
In 1954, Hemingway was awarded “Nobel Prize” for:
(a) Prose
(b) Literature
(c) Poetry
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Literature
What Santiago promised to do, if he caught the fish?
(a) To thank God
(b) To make a pilgrimage to the Virgin de Cobre
(c) To help poor
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: To make a pilgrimage to the Virgin de Cobre
Great Di Maggio had the pain of:
(a) Kidney
(b) Bone Spur
(c) Heart
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Bone Spur