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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Robert Cohn returns to Paris from America, he is a changed man. In what way does he change?
(a) He withdraws into himself, rarely going out.
(b) He knows he is deeply in love with Frances.
(c) He wants to elope with Frances immediately.
(d) He is not so simple or so nice, and not as pleasant to have around.

2. Robert Cohn offers to pay Jake's expenses if he will go to what __place with him?
(a) South America
(b) Amsterdam
(c) Africa
(d) Spain

3. After five years of marriage, three children and spending close to fifty thousand dollars, what does Robert Cohn's rich wife do?
(a) She announces that she is pregnant again.
(b) She tells him she would like to get a job.
(c) She gives him a surprise anniversary party.
(d) She leaves him for a painter of miniatures.

4. How did Robert Cohn spend his time while in Europe with Frances?
(a) He takes up painting and sculpture.
(b) He starts a new arts magazine, and wines and dines Frances.
(c) He writes a novel, reads books, plays bridge, plays tennis and boxes.
(d) He goes back to school and studies law.

5. How does Brett say she is feeling after she and Jake get into the taxi?
(a) Miserable
(b) In love
(c) Excited
(d) Anxious

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cohn tell Jake after Jake apologizes for telling him to go to hell?

2. Who asks Jake to lunch after he gets back to the office?

3. What is Brett's reaction when Jake kisses her in the taxi?

4. Why does Jake ask Georgette, the prostitute, to have dinner with him?

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

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