1. What was the main consolation Ernest Hemingway had in his childhood? What profession did he later choose for

1. What was the main consolation Ernest Hemingway had in his childhood? What profession did he later choose for himself?
a. Communicating with nature. The profession of a journalist. b. Intellectual parable and «theater of the absurd».

2. What does the boy promise the old fisherman when Santiago returns with the skeleton of a big fish?
a. That they will go fishing together again. b. Apparently, you cannot have both. One has the sea, the other has the castle; one has Hawaii, the other has a child.

3. Although the old man Santiago admits that he is not a religious person, what is he willing to do just to «overcome» the big fish?
a. Say the Lord’s Prayer and the Hail Mary ten times. b. Reliving what he had experienced before.

4. When the old fisherman Santiago sees the fish that got caught on his hook for the first time, he reasons, «I wonder why it jumped out? As if just to show me how big it is. Well, now I know. It would be great to show it what kind of a man I am. Oh, if only I were him and had everything he has against my only weapon.» What «weapon» is he referring to?
a. Freedom and skill. b. In the present and What did Santiago understand when he saw a flock of wild ducks flying over the water, clearly distinguished against the sky?
a. That a man in the sea is never alone. b. Because no one lives a life other than the one they are living.

6. When did the old fisherman Santiago start speaking aloud «fishing alone»?
a. When the boy left him. b. Seventeen.

7. What words from Ernest Hemingway’s novel «The Old Man and the Sea» sound like an invincible anthem to mankind?
a. Man can be destroyed, but not conquered. b. They sought to convey universal models of human and social spiritual and moral life.

8. Which writer of the second half of the 20th century became a legend for his contemporaries and had such an influence on contemporary prose «that it cannot be measured»?
a. Ernest Hemingway. b. M. Frisch and F. Dürrenmatt.

9. What does Santiago call the huge fish in the midst of his struggle with it?
a. Sister. b. Self-analysis.

10. What is the main problem discussed in Ernest Hemingway’s novel «The Old Man and the Sea»?
a. The relationship between man and nature. b. Everyone has their own destiny, and it cannot be changed.

11. List the famous works by Ernest Hemingway.
a. Novels «Farewell to Arms,» «Fiesta,» story «The Old Man and the Sea,» etc. b. «Santa Cruz.»

12. What artistic principle does Ernest Hemingway use in his works, explaining it as follows: «If a writer knows enough about what he is writing, he may omit things that he knows, and if the writer is writing truly enough, the reader will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them»?
a. Iceberg principle. b. Holy Cross.