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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

2. How does Mike feel about missing the fight and staying with Brett for the evening?
(a) He's very excited.
(b) He's angry.
(c) He resigns himself to the fact that he will miss the fight.
(d) He's disappointed but tries not to show it.

3. Bill is so annoyed about eating lunch at quarter past four that he stops a priest who is coming back from lunch. What comment does he make to the priest?
(a) He asks if all the Catholics enjoyed making everyone else on the train wait for lunch.
(b) He asks if the next time, the Catholics can be the last to be served.
(c) He wants to know when the Protestants get to eat and it makes him want to join the Klan.
(d) He inquires about the quality of the food and if there is any left.

4. 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 Harvey to place a bet for him with his bookie.
(d) Jake wants him to use the money to find a flat.

5. How does Brett say she is feeling after she and Jake get into the taxi?
(a) Excited
(b) Anxious
(c) Miserable
(d) In love

6. What does Cohn tell Jake after Jake apologizes for telling him to go to hell?
(a) He threatens Jake and tells him to watch his tongue.
(b) He insults Jake, saying that he is not worth the trouble.
(c) He tells Jake that he doesn't want to see him again.
(d) He tells Jake that he is the best friend he has.

7. What does Jake read after putting on his pajamas and getting into bed?
(a) He reads the Paris daily newspaper.
(b) He reads a few pages of a novel, hoping it will put him to sleep.
(c) He reads the New York Times which he has delivered to him from America.
(d) He reads

8. Where do the Count, Brett, and Jake go after they finish dinner in the restaurant?
(a) They go dancing at Zelli's.
(b) They go to the Count's hotel room for champagne.
(c) They go for a tour of Paris in a horse-cab.
(d) They go for a stroll in the park.

9. Who arrives at Jake's flat after he finishes showering?
(a) Robert Cohn and Harvey Stone
(b) Brett and Harvey Stone
(c) Brett and Robert Cohn
(d) Brett and Count Mippipopolous

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

11. Who asks Jake to lunch after he gets back to the office?
(a) Krum
(b) Woolsey
(c) Brett Ashley
(d) Robert Cohn

12. Why doesn't Cohn want Jake talking about meeting the American girl in Strasbourg?
(a) Cohn doesn't want Jake to get involved with a woman.
(b) Cohn is afraid Frances will be angry and jealous.
(c) Cohn is afraid Jake won't return to Paris.
(d) Cohn wants to stay in Paris.

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

14. Why does Frances tell Robert not to have scenes with his young ladies?
(a) He will be seen as a hard-hearted writer.
(b) He will upset the ladies so much, they will cry.
(c) He will cry and not be able to remember what was said.
(d) He will turn his readers against him.

15. As Jake lies in bed, what does he start thinking about that keeps him from sleeping?
(a) He thinks about all the work he has to do the next day and if he will meet his deadlines.
(b) He thinks about going on a trip to the bull-fights.
(c) He thinks about Robert Cohn and South America.
(d) He thinks about the war injury he received in Italy and about what might have happened to the other men who were with him in the hospital.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mike assigned to bring to Pamplona?

2. Robert Cohn moves to California and uses the remainder of his fifty thousand dollars to back and become sole editor of what magazine?

3. Why is Frances saying terrible, sarcastic comments to Cohn in front of Jake at the café?

4. Why does Krum have a difficult time going out to the Dingo or the Select?

5. Where do Jake and Bill decide to go after eating at Madame Lecomte's?

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