Unit 1: The Modern American Writer

Based on the context in these excerpts from Ernest Hemingway's "In Another Country," choose the word that most closely matches the meaning of each bolded word.

A person who practices fencing to yield or to accept to be shriveled

Which sentences in this excerpt from Ernest Hemingway's "In Another Country" show that medals and awards in war don't always bring soldiers glory and acceptance?

After that their manner changed a little toward me, although I was their friend against outsiders. I was a friend, but I was never really one of them after they had read the citations, because it had been different with them and they had done very different things to get their medals

Authors use physical traits, private thoughts, behavior, and conversations to define their characters. In which of the following excerpts does Ernest Hemingway use characterization to define the narrator in "In Another Country"?

But I stayed good friends with the boy who had been wounded his first day at the front, because he would never know now how he would have turned out; so he could never be accepted either, and I liked him because I thought perhaps he would not have turned out to be a hawk either.

Paul tries to act stoic and ______ about his brother being drafted to serve in the army, but his pained expression gives him away. We ______ourselves to watch whatever movie Tiya rents on her day to choose. The old letter they found in the book is ____ and frail.

Detached Resign Withered

In this excerpt from Ernest Hemingway's "In Another Country," which sentences show the distrust the soldiers had toward new technology and medicine in the postwar era?

In the next machine was a major who had a little hand like a baby's. He winked at me when the doctor examined his hand, which was between two leather straps that bounced up and down and flapped the stiff fingers The doctor went to his office in a back room and brought a photograph which showed a hand that had been withered almost as small as the major's, before it had taken a machine course, and after was a little larger. "Very interesting, very interesting," the major said, and handed it back to the doctor.

In this excerpt from Ernest Hemingway's "In Another Country," which sentence shows the low self-esteem of the soldiers and their belief that being a soldier has nothing to do with bravery?

The three with the medals were like hunting-hawks; and I was not a hawk, although I might seem a hawk to those who had never hunted; they, the three, knew better and so we drifted apart.

What does the irony in these excerpts from "In Another Country" by Ernest Hemingway convey?

The war is ruthless and took away the things most important to the identity and happiness of both men.

Which sentence in this excerpt from "In Another Country" by Ernest Hemingway is an example of irony?

You are a fortunate young man

Based on this excerpt from Ernest Hemingway's "In Another Country," what is the contextual meaning of the word resign?

accept it

Which of the following definitions best represents the meaning of the word invalided in this sentence from Ernest Hemingway's "In Another Country"?

to be removed from service due to injury or illness