A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway Fiction, 1929

How do the narrator’s feelings about war change in chapter 27?

• A. He no longer enjoys the company of the Italian men.

• B. He becomes more violent in the second section.

• C. He has become more cynical toward the war.

• D. He is more passionate about the cause he is fighting for in the later section.

What can the reader infer from the following passage?

“It is true. They lined them up afterward and took every tenth man. Carabinieri shot them.”

“Carabinieri,” said Passini and spat on the floor. “But those grenadiers; all over six feet. They wouldn’t attack.”

“If everybody would not attack the war would be over,” Manera said.

“It wasn’t that way with the granatieri. They were afraid. The officers all came from such good families.”

“Some of the officers went alone.”

“A sergeant shot two officers who would not get out.”

• A. Italian soldiers who refuse to fight are brutally punished.

• B. Every tenth man is allowed to go home early.

• C. The Italian military takes great care of their soldiers.

• D. Every tenth man in Italy gets drafted to the war.

What do the following lines from chapter 27 reveal about Gino?

“We won’t talk about losing. There is enough talk about losing. What has been done this summer cannot have been done in vain.”

• A. He believes those who have sacrificed their lives are fools.

• B. He dislikes the narrator.

• C. He thinks that one must believe in the cause of the war they are fighting.

• D. He will only talk about the war in plain details.

What can the reader infer from the following lines as they are used in chapter 27?

“...I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.”

• A. Henry is feeling homesick for the United States.

• B. Henry thinks that livestock is treated better than soldiers.

• C. Henry finds inspiration in the men that he has seen die on the battlefield.

• D. Henry has no opinion on the brutality of war.

What is a central idea about Passini in chapter 9?

• A. He thinks that war is fundamentally unjust.

• B. He believes that he should be speaking to the masses instead of being stuck in the trenches.

• C. He sees himself as a patriot first and foremost.

• D. He is disgusted by the idea of soldiers who would walk away from war.

Which of these inferences about the narrator is best supported by the excerpt?

• A. He would rather be a soldier than an ambulance driver.

• B. He is an expert in the ideal diet for a soldier during battle.

• C. He wishes that he could participate in the war somewhere other than Italy.

• D. He has seen too many casualties to speak of war in romantic terms.

Match each vocabulary word with its corresponding synonym: foot soldiers

• infantry

• orator

• proclamation

• hallow

• obscene

Match each vocabulary word with its corresponding synonym: speech maker

• infantry

• orator

• proclamation

• hallow

• obscene

Match each vocabulary word with its corresponding synonym: declaration

• infantry

• orator

• proclamation

• hallow

• obscene

Match each vocabulary word with its corresponding synonym: sacred

• hallow

• obscene

• infantry

• orator

• proclamation