Question

Lieutenant Frederic Henry is a) a male nurse in A Farewell to Arms. b) an American lieutenant who volunteers for the Italian ambulance corps. c) a priest. d) also known as Passini.

Answer 1

Answer:

b) an American lieutenant who volunteers for the Italian ambulance corps.

Explanation:

In A Farewell to Arms, Lieutenant Frederic Henry is an American Lieutenant who volunteers for the Italian ambulance corps. Frederic is a man who is committed to his work with quiet acceptance as he believes that the war is dreadful but necessary.However, he is spiritually lost. It is only when Frederic meets Nurse Catherine that his spirit begins to experience a transformation. He becomes more pessimistic about the war, but also more mature and able to commit to something and someone.

Answer 2

Answer:

b) an American lieutenant who volunteers for the Italian ambulance corps.

Explanation:

The Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway tells the story of a US lieutenant, Frederic Henry, who served in the Italian army during World War I as an ambulance driver. The novel unfolds around his tragic passion for an English nurse. It is a romance of love and suffering, of loyalty and desertion.

The American Frederick Henry goes to Italy during the First World War, looking for work as a war correspondent, but ends up becoming an ambulance driver with the lieutenant's insignia. On the eve of an Italian offensive against the Austrian army, he meets English Red Cross aide Catherine Barkley and they fall in love. Henry is wounded in the ensuing battle and is taken to the American hospital in Milan.

Thanks to their Italian friends, the two meet again at the hospital and stay together during Henry's recovery. Catherine gets pregnant but does not want to get married. Henry is forced to return to his unit. He comes back in a difficult time, when the Germans can force the Italians to retreat (Battle of Caporetto). During the ensuing chaos, his official friend and doctor Alessandro Rinaldi is shot by the Italian soldiers themselves, which causes Henry to leave the army. He returns to Catherine and the two escape to Switzerland.