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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

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) Live your life now because you will be dead in thirty years.
(c) Traveling is a great way to get away from your problems.
(d) You can't get away from yourself by traveling from place to place.

2. What is the financial status of Robert Cohn's parents who reside in New York?
(a) They are middle class working people.
(b) They are low income, struggling to survive.
(c) They are unemployed with a bleak future.
(d) They are one of the richest Jewish, New York families.

3. What advice do people offer Jake about his war injury that he resents so much?
(a) They tell him he is lucky; it could have been worse.
(b) They tell him it is not important and he shouldn't worry about it.
(c) They say it is better than getting killed.
(d) They tell him not to think about it.

4. Who does Jake say are the only people who live their lives to the fullest?
(a) Horse racers
(b) Artists
(c) African safari hunters
(d) Bullfighters

5. How does Jake describe being in love to Brett?
(a) He thinks love is
(b) He believes love if not what the poets says it is.
(c) He thinks love is for the birds.
(d) He says that being in love is fun and an enjoyable feeling.

6. Who has a cab waiting for Jake and Bill as they get off the train?
(a) Harvey Stone
(b) Robert Cohn
(c) Brett and Mike
(d) Braddocks

7. Where does Jake think Robert Cohn gets his dislike of Paris?
(a) From Fances's bad attitude toward Paris
(b) From cultural discussions with Braddocks
(c) From negative experiences he has had
(d) From the opinionated writings of Mencken

8. When Jake and Bill try to get tickets for the first lunch service on the train, what does the conductor tell them?
(a) He gives them tickets and tells them to enjoy the ride.
(b) They can have tickets to the second serving.
(c) They are all reserved. There is nothing available until the fifth at three-thirty.
(d) They are all reserved but he will find them a spot for ten francs.

9. Why does Jake give Harvey some money?
(a) Harvey has been threatened by debt collectors.
(b) Harvey hasn't eaten in five days, wants to be alone and doesn't care if he eats.
(c) Jake wants him to use the money to find a flat.
(d) Jake wants Harvey to place a bet for him with his bookie.

10. There are seven cars on the train full of Catholic Americans from Dayton, Ohio. Where are they headed?
(a) They are touring the basilicas in Spain.
(b) They are going to the bull-fights in Spain.
(c) They are on a pilgrimage to Rome, Biarritz, and Lourdes.
(d) They are planning a fishing trip.

11. What are the two ideas Robert Cohn gets from W. H. Hudson's novel, "The Purple Land"?
(a) Everyone needs many children and live through your children.
(b) Dating many women is the thing to do and writing a novel is fulfilling.
(c) South America will help him live life and he doesn't like Paris.
(d) Going to see bull-fighters will spice up his life and getting married is necessary for a man.

12. What happens to Jake when he suggests he and Cohn go to Strasbourg for the weekend to meet a girl he knows there?
(a) Jake spills hot coffee in his lap.
(b) Cohn kicks him under the table.
(c) Frances throws water in his face.
(d) Frances kicks him under the table.

13. What does Brett say she did while in San Sebastian?
(a) She went sun bathing at the beach.
(b) She prayed at the Basílica de Santa María del Coro.
(c) She never went out and didn't do anything.
(d) She visited all the cafes in the area.

14. What is the view Jake and Bill have from the train as they pass through Landes?
(a) They see bustling cities with sidewalks full of people.
(b) They see farmland of steer and bulls.
(c) They see the sun set, wooded hills, sandy pine country, heather, clearings with houses and an occasional sawmill.
(d) They see hills covered with olive trees.

15. What title does Robert Cohn achieve while attending Princeton?
(a) Middleweight boxing champion
(b) Princeton Review editor
(c) Heavyweight boxing champion
(d) Rhodes Scholar

Short Answer Questions

1. Why doesn't Brett want Jake to touch her?

2. Jake and Cohn get into an argument during lunch. What is the argument about?

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

4. What is Brett's reaction when Jake kisses her in the taxi?

5. What does Jake do when he gets to his office after breakfast?

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