Another Country
Ernest Hemingway (excerpts)
erpt 1
the fall the war was always there, but we did not go to it any more.
as cold in the fall in Milan and the dark came very early. Then the
tric lights came on, and it was pleasant along the streets looking in the
dows. There was much game hanging outside the shops, and the snow
dered in the fur of the foxes and the wind blew their tails. The deer
g stiff and heavy and empty, and small birds blew in the wind and the
d turned their feathers. It was a cold fall and the wind came down from
mountains."
erpt 2
e people hated us because we were officers, and from a wine-shop
meone called out, "A basso gli ufficiali!" as we passed. Another boy who
ked with us sometimes and made us five wore a black silk handkerchief
oss his face because he had no nose then and his face was to be
uilt. He had gone out to the front from the military academy and been
inded within an hour after he had gone into the front line for the first
They rebuilt his face, but he came from a very old family and they
ld never get the nose exactly right. He went to South America and
ked in a bank. But this was a long time ago, and then we did not any of
now how it was going to be afterward. We only knew then that there
s always the war, but that we were not going to it any more."
3
Select the correct answer.
What important fact about the wounded soldiers is reflected by the repetition of the bolded sentences in the excerpts from "In Another Country" by
Ernest Hemingway?
OA. It establishes the irony that, although the wounded soldiers have physically left the warfront, the war continues to haunt them
psychologically.
OB. It shows the gradual loss of hope and growing depression of the wounded soldiers and their need for distractions.
OC.
It establishes the wounded soldiers' determination to shun war and disobey military commands to return to the front after they
recover.
OD. It shows the wounded soldiers' sadness and disappointment at the lack of gratitude from the people they risked their lives to
protect.
OE. It shows the wounded soldiers' belief the the war would never end, even as thousands of soldiers were killed or wounded and
sent to hospitals.