Hemingway's "Soldier's Home"

Which of the following sentences best states the theme of "Soldier's Home"?

• Family and friends want returning soldiers to find good jobs.
• Most civilians don't appreciate the heroism of soldiers.
• Wartime combat can be so devastating that it changes one completely.
• Most soldiers return home with little respect for their neighbors.

Krebs can best be described as a person who...

• deeply mistrusts everyone around him
• looks forward to rejoining his boyhood friends
• has lost his goals and the energy to pursue them
• has suffered injuries that leave him physically disabled

When he returns home, Krebs finds that he...

• can talk about the war only to his sister
• must lie to be listened to
• wants to read adventure books
• does not want a girlfriend

Krebs has returned home too late to...

• find a comfortable apartment

• feel any interest in wartime events

• receive news of the whereabouts of his fellow soldiers

• receive an elaborate welcome from his hometown

Krebs's sister Helen seems to...

• need his love and approval
• grow embarrassed by his behavior
• resent his long absence from home
• be jealous of the attention he gets

Krebs's father finally agrees that Krebs...

• is lazy and should be kicked out of the house
• should re-enlist in the army
• may take the car out from time to time
• should come to work for him

After the conversation with his mother, Krebs decides to go away because he...

• wants to avoid any kind of conflict
• hears of a good job waiting for him in Kansas City
• realizes that his parents no longer love him
• yearns to find a rural area and settle down

What does Krebs seem to need most when he returns home from the war?

• An executive job at his father's office
• Solitude and understanding
• Further military training
• Stimulation and excitement

Judging from "Soldier's Home" and Hemingway's 1954 Nobel Prize acceptance speech, what do writers have in common with combat veterans who have returned home?

• Literary skill
• A yearning for something unattainable
• An "alchemy"
• Loneliness

In his 1954 Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Hemingway expresses both an awareness of great writers who came before him and a need to exceed their accomplishments.  In "Soldier's Home" Hemingway succeeded by writing one of the first realistic descriptions of...

• postwar disillusionment
• war
• the Midwest
• family life