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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Mike compare Cohn to a steer?
(a) He says that Robert is always trying to keep the peace like a steer.
(b) He says that Robert is aggressive just like a steer, chasing after Brett.
(c) He says that Robert can be sacrificed like a steer.
(d) He says that like a steer, Robert lives a quiet life, never has to say anything, and hangs around Brett where he is not wanted.

3. Robert Cohn is a Jewish man attending Princeton. How does this make him feel?
(a) Outgoing and proud
(b) Angry and reclusive
(c) Inferior and shy
(d) Superior and snooty

4. Robert Cohn falls asleep in Jakes office and talks in his sleep. What does he say?
(a) He says that he can't do it. Nothing will make him do it.
(b) He says that he doesn't want it to happen to him.
(c) He says that his life is passing him by. He's losing his way.
(d) He says that he has to go to South America. He just has to.

5. What is the condition of the countryside in the Basque country?
(a) Barren, forgettable countryside with small, dirty villages
(b) Dry, infertile land with small thatched huts scattered throughout
(c) The land is very rich and green with houses in good, clean condition.
(d) Overdeveloped land with many roads and vehicles

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Brett's friend, Zizi, introduce her to when she and Jake go into the Café Select?

2. As Jake, Bill, and Cohen drive across the plain to Pamplona, what is their first view of the town?

3. Who does Jake share a taxi with after the press conference at Quai d'Orsay?

4. Bill Gorton says that Vienna "is a strange city". What city does he compare it to?

5. Why does Jake think of Cohn as Moses seeing the Promised Land for the first time while they are having a drink together at the dance?

(see the answer key)

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