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Laird1 Study Guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Passini | Another one of the ambulance drivers; he fights with Frederic Henry and is killed by the trench mortar |
| Got his knee blown off | Frederic Henry; Blown off by the trench mortar; because of this, he goes off to Milan |
| Product of hot nights in Milan | “Young Catherine”, Frederic and Catherine’s baby boy; Catherine and Frederic fell in love |
| Strangled by the umbilical cord | Catherine and Frederic’s baby boy, or “Young Catherine”; When he was born, he was already dead |
| Ambulance Driver | Frederic; His job in the military |
| Helen Ferguson | Nurse in the Milan hospital; She is a good friend of Catherine’s |
| Rinaldi | Frederic’s doctor friend; He introduced Frederic to Catherine |
| Eating cheese and macaroni | Staple food of soldiers in the Italian army; What Frederic and the other drivers are eating as trench mortar hits |
| “tenente” | Frederic Henry; Name for Lieutenant, his ranking in the army |
| “gas” | Catherine keeps asks for gas while in labor; The gas is an anesthetic, showing how much pain Catherine is in |
| Walked out alone in the rain | Frederic; Right after Catherine had died |
| Ants on a log | Frederic tortures and kills ants on a log; Didn’t save them when he could; this happened after the boy dies |
| Abruzzi | Home village of the priest; He always says he wants Frederic to visit there |
| Mamma Mia! | Passini says this; He screams this right before he dies when the trench mortar hit him |
| Escaped by jumping into a river | Frederic; He escaped from the Italian army because they were going to shoot him for sounding foreign |
| Switzerland | Neutral country; Destination of Frederic and Catherine because the Italian’s couldn’t touch them there |
| “Like saying goodbye to a statue…” | Frederic saying goodbye to Catherine; After she had died and she was all still |
| Boxed with a beard on his face | Frederic; Grew a beard when he went to Switzerland; when Catherine would sleep, he would exercise; he didn’t like boxing with a beard because it made him feel strange |
| Count Greffi | Old 94 year old man; Frederic plays billiards with him |
| Billiards | Count Greffi and Frederic played them; In Stresa and Greffi wanted to talk to Frederic; drank and played at 5 |
| Frederic Henry “tenente” | American in the Italian army the book centers around; Falls in love with Catherine and runs away from the army |
| Catherine Barkley | V.A.D in the British army; She is Frederic’s love interest |
| Gorizia | Home base of Frederic; It is like a café haven, as Frederic returns here often |
| The Somme | Catherine’s fiancée died in this; Battle in France that lost a lot of troops |
| Plava | Where the offensive was to begin; Frederic had troubles getting there |
| V.A.D. | Shortcut to being nurse; Catherine was one |
| Villa Rossa | brothel; Rinaldi would often go here |
| The limping man | Intentionally hurt himself to get out of the war; They were going to come back and get him, but others had already got to him; he hurt his head on purpose so he’d be taken away |
| Aldo | Driver; Good friend of Frederic’s |
| St. Anthony | On the medal Catherine gave Frederic; Frederic eventually lost this medal |
| Passini | Another one of the drivers; Dies when his legs get severed off in the trench mortar |
| Gordini | Another driver; Goes to get the soup |
| Grauizzi | Driver; also got hit by the trench mortar |
| 206th | regiment Frederic belonged to |
| 307th | regiment priest stays with |
| silver medal | honorable medal for being hurt in battle; Rinaldi wanted the army to give it to Frederic |
| black pig | atheist book the officers have read; priest did not like this book, especially because it was full of blasphemy |
| priest | young religious man that often talked to Frederic; good friend of Frederic’s |
| Milan | City where Frederic goes to when he gets hurt; Stays here for a long time |
| Lire | Currency; Frederic often tips people or gives them money, say 5 or 10 lire |
| Mrs. Walker | Friend of Catherine’s; Frederic’s old nurse in Milan; Kind |
| Miss Van Campen | Superintendant of the hospital in Milan; strict |
| Lake Como | Where Dr. Valentini was visiting; Frederic had to wait to get his knee operated on |
| Miss Gage | Other nurse in Milan; Lets Frederic have his liquor he was afraid he couldn’t have |
| Carabaneiri | Police corps; Monitored civilians and authority |
| Manera | Ambulance driver; Carried Frederic when he got hurt |
| Scala | Opera house; Frederic and Rinaldi want to go there |
| Crowell | Boy wounded in the eye by a hand grenade; Went to the horse races with Frederic |
| Caesarian | Surgery Catherine has because of her baby; Complications cause Catherine to die |
| Gonorrhea | STD; Henry had it before he was with Catherine |
| The Huns | Germans; Enemies of Italy |
| Germans | Enemy; Italians were very scared of the Germans |
| Syphilis | STD; Rinaldi has it |
| Emilio | Barman; Tells Frederic the police are after him |
| Anti tetanus | Shot given to people when they have shrapnel lodged in their skin; Frederic got one of these because of all the metal that went into his skin after the trench mortar |
| Ciaou | Italian for goodbye; Often used in the book; also, Hemingway could speak Italian |
| “Like moves of a chess game” | Frederic; Talking about his relationship with Catherine; like bridge |
| Umbilical cord | Strangled the baby; Part of the reason why the birth was so hard and why the baby and Catherine died |
| “It’s just nature giving her hell” | Frederic; Worrying about Catherine |
| Sim | Frederic’s friend; Gave Frederic civilian clothes |
| Tagliamento | River; Escape route for Frederic |
| Valentini | Frederic’s doctor; He was the one Frederic felt worthy to do his surgery |
| Ettore | Man that has three wounds; also from America |
| Ospedale Maggiore | American hospital in Milan; Frederic goes there to get his X |
| Bonello | Another driver; Left Frederic when they were in the house because he thought they’d get caught |
| 1899 | year Hemingway was born |
| Oak Park, Illinois | Where Hemingway was born |
| 270 bits of metal | amount of shards that went into Hemingway’s leg in the war |
| Hadley Richardson | Hemingway’s first wife |
| Ketchum, Idaho | Where Hemingway committed suicide |
| 1961 | year that Hemingway died |
| 1954 | year Hemingway won the Nobel Prize |
| Lady Bernashe | One of the only believable women in Hemingway’s novels |
| WWI | War the book was based off of |
| WWII | War Hemingway fought in |
| T.S. Elliott, E.E. Cummings, Gertrude Stein | Poets |
| Paris | Authors often came here because of the environment and freedom |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald, H.L. Mengen, John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, Theodore Driser | Authors |
| Sherwood Anderson and Gertrude Stein | Authors that made a great influence on Hemingway |
| In Our Time | 1924 book by Hemingway |
| Tennessee | Scopes trials were held here (whether evolution could be taught in schools) |
| Gino | Italian Frederic Meets in a village; Believes in the war; his belief starkly contrasts Frederic’s |
| The Torrents of Spring, The Sun Also Rises, To Have and Have Not, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Across the River and Into the Trees, The Old Man and the Sea, Islands in the Stream, The Garden of Eden, True at First Light | All the books that Hemingway wrote |
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