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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. What does Robert Cohn do while Jake works for two hours in the office?
(a) He looks out the window at the Paris streets.
(b) He reads papers and falls asleep.
(c) He stuffs manila envelopes for Jake.
(d) He helps Jake sort out carbons.

2. 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 all is going well and he is half way through his second book.
(c) He says that he can't seem to get started on his second book and he is worried.
(d) He says that his writing is speeding along and he is on the final chapter.

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

4. Why doesn't Cohn want Jake talking about meeting the American girl in Strasbourg?
(a) Cohn doesn't want Jake to get involved with a woman.
(b) Cohn is afraid Jake won't return to Paris.
(c) Cohn is afraid Frances will be angry and jealous.
(d) Cohn wants to stay in Paris.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. As Jake lies in bed, what does he start thinking about that keeps him from sleeping?

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

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

4. Why does Robert Cohn go to America after three years in Europe?

5. A forceful woman, Frances, hopes to gain success working with Robert Cohn on the magazine. She urges him to go to Europe with her when the magazine shuts down. What else did she want from him?

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