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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Robert Cohn moves to California and uses the remainder of his fifty thousand dollars to back and become sole editor of what magazine?
(a) Review of the Arts
(b) The California Coastline
(c) The Fine Arts and Music Magazine
(d) The Princeton Review

2. What are the two ideas Robert Cohn gets from W. H. Hudson's novel, "The Purple Land"?
(a) Going to see bull-fighters will spice up his life and getting married is necessary for a man.
(b) South America will help him live life and he doesn't like Paris.
(c) Dating many women is the thing to do and writing a novel is fulfilling.
(d) Everyone needs many children and live through your children.

3. How does Jake introduce Georgette to his friends when they meet at the restaurant?
(a) As a poule he picked up on the street
(b) As his sister
(c) As his fiancée
(d) As his cousin

4. What is the financial status of Robert Cohn's parents who reside in New York?
(a) They are unemployed with a bleak future.
(b) They are middle class working people.
(c) They are one of the richest Jewish, New York families.
(d) They are low income, struggling to survive.

5. Who are the two friends Robert Cohn has during his three years in Europe?
(a) Spider Kelly and Frances
(b) Braddocks and Jake
(c) Jake and Spider Kelly
(d) Spider Kelly and Braddocks

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Jake referring to when he says to Brett, "you like to add them up."?

2. Why doesn't Cohn want Jake talking about meeting the American girl in Strasbourg?

3. Robert Cohn offers to pay Jake's expenses if he will go to what __place with him?

4. What does Robert Cohn think about Paris after returning from America?

5. Georgette asks Jake what is wrong with him, since he doesn't want her to touch him. What does he reply?

(see the answer key)

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