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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bill tell Jake the secret to success is?
(a) Try to stop injustice
(b) Invest wisely
(c) Write the great American novel
(d) Never be daunted

2. What did a Basque offer to Jake and Bill as they waited in the heat for the bus to leave for Burguete?
(a) A drink from a big leather wine bag
(b) Raw meat wrapped in grape leaves
(c) Goat's milk
(d) Fruit from a wicker basket

3. Who do Bill and Jake see in a taxi as they are walking down the street to a restaurant?
(a) Mike Campbell
(b) Lady Brett Ashley
(c) Robert Cohn
(d) Harvey Stone

4. What words does Mike repeat to describe Brett to Jake and Bill?
(a) A raving beauty
(b) A lovely rose
(c) A bountiful beauty
(d) A lovely piece

5. 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 wants to elope with Frances immediately.
(c) He is not so simple or so nice, and not as pleasant to have around.
(d) He knows he is deeply in love with Frances.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

5. When Brett doesn't show up at the Hotel Crillon, Jake takes a cab to the Select. Who asks him to sit down when he arrives?

(see the answer key)

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