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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 his life is passing him by. He's losing his way.
(c) He says that he has to go to South America. He just has to.
(d) He says that he doesn't want it to happen to him.

3. 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 says that being in love is fun and an enjoyable feeling.
(d) He thinks love is for the birds.

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

5. Who does Brett leave the dance-club with?
(a) Jake
(b) Cohn
(c) Georgette
(d) Braddocks

6. Jake feels he did not give an accurate picture of Robert Cohn. What does he add to his description of Cohn?
(a) Cohn is an excellent tennis player with a good, athletic body. He is nice to other people, cheerful and didn't get angry when beaten in tennis.
(b) Cohn insults other people constantly, looking for ways to start arguments.
(c) Cohn is superficial, only caring about what he wears and how he looks.
(d) Cohn is a conceited, self-centered man who is a sore loser at tennis.

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

8. 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.

9. Why is Robert Cohn so anxious to go to South America with Jake?
(a) He wants to research the area before taking Frances there.
(b) He wants to inquire into investing in coffee beans.
(c) He wants to buy a vacation home there for Frances.
(d) He is afraid his life is moving too fast and he is not really living it.

10. As Jake watches Brett walk up the street from his flat and get into the Count's limousine, what is he thinking?
(a) He thinks that it is easy to be brave and ignore things in the daytime, but at night, all the worries and heartache returns.
(b) He thinks that he should be getting back to bed.
(c) He wonders what it would be like if he was able to have a normal relationship with Brett.
(d) He thinks that he should have gone with Brett when she offered to bring him to Zelli's.

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

12. When Robert Cohn returns to Paris from America, he is a changed man. In what way does he change?
(a) He wants to elope with Frances immediately.
(b) He withdraws into himself, rarely going out.
(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.

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

14. 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 wants to know when the Protestants get to eat and it makes him want to join the Klan.
(b) He asks if the next time, the Catholics can be the last to be served.
(c) He asks if all the Catholics enjoyed making everyone else on the train wait for lunch.
(d) He inquires about the quality of the food and if there is any left.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Robert Cohn is a Jewish man attending Princeton. How does this make him feel?

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

3. What advice does Jake give to Robert Cohn when they go to the café below Jakes office?

4. What did Frances say that Robert did to his secretary at Frances' request?

5. Where does Jake tell Cohn that he met Brett?

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