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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who asks Jake to lunch after he gets back to the office?
(a) Woolsey
(b) Krum
(c) Brett Ashley
(d) Robert Cohn

2. What title does Robert Cohn achieve while attending Princeton?
(a) Rhodes Scholar
(b) Heavyweight boxing champion
(c) Princeton Review editor
(d) Middleweight boxing champion

3. Where was the Count when he received his wounds?
(a) In the Italian front
(b) Fighting in a revolution
(c) On a business trip
(d) On a naval ship

4. Bill is so annoyed about eating lunch at quarter past four that he stops a priest who is coming back from lunch. What comment does he make to the priest?
(a) He inquires about the quality of the food and if there is any left.
(b) He asks if all the Catholics enjoyed making everyone else on the train wait for lunch.
(c) He asks if the next time, the Catholics can be the last to be served.
(d) He wants to know when the Protestants get to eat and it makes him want to join the Klan.

5. Why does Jake think of Cohn as Moses seeing the Promised Land for the first time while they are having a drink together at the dance?
(a) Cohn is looking with adoration at his fiancée, Frances.
(b) Cohn is eagerly looking at Lady Brett, hoping for a dance.
(c) Cohn is in awe of the night life in Paris.
(d) Cohn is expectantly hoping for a night with Georgette.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Robert Cohn spend his time while in Europe with Frances?

2. What are the two ideas Robert Cohn gets from W. H. Hudson's novel, "The Purple Land"?

3. Jake is awakened at 4:30 in the morning by a loud voice downstairs arguing with the concierge. Who comes looking for him at his flat?

4. The Count boasts that he has been around. Where has he been?

5. Bill Gorton says that Vienna "is a strange city". What city does he compare it to?

(see the answer key)

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