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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do the Count, Brett, and Jake go after they finish dinner in the restaurant?
(a) They go for a stroll in the park.
(b) They go dancing at Zelli's.
(c) They go to the Count's hotel room for champagne.
(d) They go for a tour of Paris in a horse-cab.

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

3. While eating lunch at Wetzels's, Jake asks Cohn how his writing is progressing. What is Cohn's reply?
(a) He says that he has decided not to write anymore.
(b) He says that he can't seem to get started on his second book and he is worried.
(c) He says that all is going well and he is half way through his second book.
(d) He says that his writing is speeding along and he is on the final chapter.

4. Why does Robert Cohn go to America after three years in Europe?
(a) He wants to see his children.
(b) He teaches a literary class at Princeton.
(c) His novel is accepted at a publishing company in America.
(d) He goes to visit his mother.

5. Bill and Jake sit down to eat lunch after fishing and have an amusing conversation about the different men they went to college with. Which men do they mention?
(a) Henry James, Abraham Lincoln, Grant, and Keats
(b) Harris, Henry Ford, Roosevelt, and Wheeler
(c) Bryan, Mencken, Frankie Fritsch, Bishop Manning, and Wayne Wheeler
(d) Bishop Manning, Henry James, Fitzgerald, and Roosevelt

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How are the houses in Burguete arranged?

3. What does Bill tell Jake the secret to success is?

4. While on the bus, Bill and Jake have a conversation with an old man who says that he lived in America forty years ago. Why did he return to Spain?

5. Why does the concierge of Jake's flat changer her opinion of Brett?

(see the answer key)

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