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1. According to the author, Hemingway’s primary purpose in telling a story was

Difficulty Level: 550

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This is a description question.

(A) is false. The enjoyment of the reader was incidental to Hemingway’s primary purpose—truth-telling.

(B) is false, though very tempting. The first half of this item “to construct a story that would reflect truths” looks very good. The second half, however, spoils it by adding the qualifier “not particular to a specific historical period.” Reviewing the passage reveals no indication that Hemingway is trying to create any kind of “general truth.” In fact, one can argue that Hemingway’s emphasis on developing a strong “sense of place” (lines 23–26), and his belief that when trying to tell the truth “I only know what I have seen” (line 7) support the inference that Hemingway sees truth as subjective, not objective.

(C) is also false. The passage gives no indication that Hemingway was interested in the way things “might have been.”

(D) is true. This is clearly the author’s interpretation of Hemingway’s purpose. Look at the first few sentences of both the first and the second paragraphs. Notice that this question item emphasizes subjective truth, or the truth “as Hemingway had experienced it.” Strategy: In this question, you have two choices—(B) and (D)—which at first glance seem very close. Let’s assume you don’t understand exactly why a “close second” is wrong. When confronted with this situation, it’s a good idea to take a few seconds and try to get into the Question-Writer’s mindset. What are you missing that the Question-Writer thinks is an important point in this passage? In this case, the Question Writer is focusing on the subtle point that Hemingway sees his perspective as “subjective,” that certain things, true in some places or to some people, may not be true in other places or to other people. In other words, there is no “objective reality.”If you have trouble with later questions on the same passage, you may want to go back, analyze the passage, and determine the real difference between the earlier “close pair.” The Question-Writer may be testing the same question from a different angle, in which case time is well spent pondering the issue.

Answer: D

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4. It has been suggested that part of Hemingway’s genius lies in the way in which he removes himself from his stories in order to let readers experience the stories for themselves. Which of the following elements of the passage support this suggestion?

Difficulty Level: 750

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This is an extension question.
Statement I is true. The last line of the passage states that the designer’s initials (i.e., the writer’s presence) are made as inconspicuous as possible.

Statement II is also true. Readers cannot see “the way it was” if they are looking through another medium (the author). Hemingway appears to say, in effect: “I’m striving to report exactly what happened (and not my opinions about it). The readers must draw their own conclusions.”

Statement III is false. In fact, a good case could be made that writing only from personal experience would tend to increase, not decrease, the presence of the writer in his writings.

The answer is (C).

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5. From the passage, one can assume that which of the following statements would best describe Hemingway’s attitude toward knowledge?

Difficulty Level: 600

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This is an application question; we are asked to put ourselves in Hemingway’s mind. From Hemingway’s statement “I only know what I have seen” and from the author’s assertion that Hemingway refused to honor secondary sources, we can infer that he believed one can “know” only through experience. Hence the answer is (A).

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