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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the spectators react when they feel they are cheated by Belmonte's bull fight?

2. What is the weather like when Jake and Bill arrive in Burguete?

3. What is the reason Brett tells Jake she is a goner?

4. Where did Brett's husband, Ashley, make her sleep?

5. What is the name of the man who was gored through the back and killed during the bull run?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Jake's thoughts as he lies in bed after the evening with Bill, Mike and Brett?

2. Explain how the fist fight between Robert Cohn and Jake Barnes gets started?

3. Is Mike Campbell justified in comparing Robert Cohen to one of the steers?

4. What are the feelings that Brett reveals to Jake about Pedro Romero?

5. Summarize the description Jake gives of Basque country.

6. Bill calls Jake an expatriate. What does he mean by this?

7. Relate why Montoya, the hotel owner in Pamplona, smiles at Jake and asks if Bill is an aficionado?

8. How does Pedro Romero view the bulls that he fights?

9. What type of personal conversations do Bill and Jake get into while they are in the countryside fishing?

10. Why is the bull fighter, Romero, the main attraction of all the bull fighters?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Jake's impotence is mentioned many times in the novel.

2) Analyze how the theme of impotence is presented in the novel and what it symbolizes.

3) How does impotence relate to other themes in the novel?

4) Use examples from the story to support the answer.

Essay Topic 2

1) Frances tells Jake that Cohn fired his secretary when she asked him to.

2) What does this reveal about the character of Robert Cohn?

3) What does it reveal about Frances's character?

4) Are their actions admirable or not? Why?

5) What emotions provoke the two of them to act this way?

Essay Topic 3

1) Evaluate the relationship between Mike Campbell and Brett Ashley.

2) Are they a good match?

3) How do they treat one another?

4) Is it an equal, strong partnership?

5) Do they accept one another for who they are?

Justify all answers.

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