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ap lit study guide
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Question | Answer |
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"Cat in the Rain" by Hemingway attempts to evoke a mood of... | emptiness & sterility |
The story is concerned with a husband & wife who... | stop at an Italian hotel |
The place where the couple is staying faces... | an empty lot |
the central image of the story is the... | emptiness which the hotel faces |
the light images in the story shift to... | correspond with the changing moods of the wife |
what the wife yearns for is... | a child to nurture |
the gift of the padrone is a(n)... | artificial fulfillment of the wife's yearnings |
in the wife's view, their marriage is | unfulfilled |
the changing lights as twilight becomes night reflect the | transition from reality to artificiality |
one can infer from the reading of the story that the husband was | a selfish, self-centered boor |
all of the following are ironies in the story except | all that the wife had gotten out of life was meretricious & artificial |
all of the following reveal that the wife was dominated by the husband except | they traveled to exotic places together |
the narrator of this story | is omniscient |
the reason the reader is told the husband's name but not the wife's is that | the author wishes to establish a contrast between the reality of the husband & the dream character of the wife |
all of the following are true of the story except | the padrone, like the husband, is thoughtless & insensitive |