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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Jake and Bill stay warm after they finish their evening meal?
(a) They go to bed and read.
(b) They put on extra layers of clothing.
(c) They go for a run through the town.
(d) They sit in front of the fireplace.

2. What is one of the methods smugglers use to cross from France into Spain?
(a) They take boats down the stream.
(b) They try to convince other travelers to hide them in their vehicles.
(c) They wait for nightfall and sneak through the Spanish frontier.
(d) They wade across the stream.

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

4. What is Jake's philosophy that everything that is good has to be paid for?
(a) He says that it is paid by learning, by experience, by taking chances, or by money.
(b) He believes money will buy anything.
(c) He says that payment is made by living life.
(d) He says that payment is made by working hard.

5. What advice does Bill give Jake about dreaming after they wake up from their afternoon nap?
(a) Dreaming is for children.
(b) Jake should dream because all the successful businessmen are dreamers.
(c) Dreaming eases the burdens of the day.
(d) Don't pay any attention to dreams. They don't have any meaning.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will the spectators do on the morning of the first day of the bull fights?

2. Who do Jake and Bill share their train compartment with?

3. What does the bull fight critic say about Pedro Romero's performance in the ring when Jake is having a drink with them?

4. Where does Jake think Robert Cohn gets his dislike of Paris?

5. Robert Cohn falls asleep in Jakes office and talks in his sleep. What does he say?

(see the answer key)

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