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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 advice does Jake give to Robert Cohn when they go to the café below Jakes office?
(a) Don't waste your life staying in one place.
(b) You can't get away from yourself by traveling from place to place.
(c) Live your life now because you will be dead in thirty years.
(d) Traveling is a great way to get away from your problems.

2. As Jake watches Brett walk up the street from his flat and get into the Count's limousine, what is he thinking?
(a) He thinks that it is easy to be brave and ignore things in the daytime, but at night, all the worries and heartache returns.
(b) He wonders what it would be like if he was able to have a normal relationship with Brett.
(c) He thinks that he should be getting back to bed.
(d) He thinks that he should have gone with Brett when she offered to bring him to Zelli's.

3. Who does Brett's friend, Zizi, introduce her to when she and Jake go into the Café Select?
(a) Count Mippipopolous
(b) Aloysius Kirby
(c) Marshal Ney
(d) Robert Cohn

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jake tell Cohn about Brett when he inquires about her?

2. How does Brett say she is feeling after she and Jake get into the taxi?

3. What does Robert Cohn do while Jake works for two hours in the office?

4. Who does Brett leave the dance-club with?

5. What are the two pieces of mail that Jakes picks up from the concierge when he returns to his flat?

(see the answer key)

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