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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Brett feeling when Jake says goodbye to her at her hotel?
(a) She is miserable and says she will not see Jake again.
(b) She is indifferent to Jake.
(c) She is excited about leaving Jake and getting on with her life.
(d) She is happy and looking forward to her wedding to Michael.

2. Jake feels he did not give an accurate picture of Robert Cohn. What does he add to his description of Cohn?
(a) Cohn is superficial, only caring about what he wears and how he looks.
(b) Cohn is a conceited, self-centered man who is a sore loser at tennis.
(c) 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.
(d) Cohn insults other people constantly, looking for ways to start arguments.

3. What advice does Jake give to Robert Cohn when they go to the café below Jakes office?
(a) You can't get away from yourself by traveling from place to place.
(b) Don't waste your life staying in one place.
(c) Live your life now because you will be dead in thirty years.
(d) Traveling is a great way to get away from your problems.

4. Jake runs into some of his friends while eating at the restaurant with Georgette. Where does Braddocks ask Jake and Georgette to go?
(a) To Foyot's
(b) To the Louvre
(c) A walk along the Seinne
(d) To the dance club, bal musette

5. Jake and Cohn get into an argument during lunch. What is the argument about?
(a) Jake is furious when Cohn makes a joke about his war injury.
(b) Cohn is insulted when Jake tells him to leave Frances because she is no good for him.
(c) Cohn is angry that Jake insults Brett by saying she married someone she didn't love, twice. Jake also tells him to go to hell.
(d) Jake is sick and tired of hearing about South America, telling Cohn to drop the subject.

6. What does Robert Cohn think about Paris after returning from America?
(a) He considers Paris his home.
(b) He loves Paris and never wants to leave.
(c) He is sick of Paris.
(d) Paris is one of his favorite cities.

7. 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?
(a) Braddocks
(b) Harvey Stone
(c) Robert Cohn
(d) Brett Ashley

8. According to Cohn, what is the reason Frances would not go to South America with him?
(a) She is afraid to travel.
(b) She thinks South America is the wilderness.
(c) She doesn't like foreign countries.
(d) She wouldn't like South America. She likes to be around a lot of people.

9. Where does Jake tell Cohn that he met Brett?
(a) He met her in a bar in America.
(b) He first saw her in a café in Paris.
(c) They met while on a cruise to England.
(d) She was a V.A.D. in a hospital he was in during the war.

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

11. Robert Cohn moves to California and uses the remainder of his fifty thousand dollars to back and become sole editor of what magazine?
(a) The Princeton Review
(b) The Fine Arts and Music Magazine
(c) Review of the Arts
(d) The California Coastline

12. Bill Gorton says that Vienna "is a strange city". What city does he compare it to?
(a) Rome
(b) New York
(c) Paris
(d) Barcelona

13. Robert Cohn is a Jewish man attending Princeton. How does this make him feel?
(a) Angry and reclusive
(b) Outgoing and proud
(c) Superior and snooty
(d) Inferior and shy

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

15. Who does Brett's friend, Zizi, introduce her to when she and Jake go into the Café Select?
(a) Count Mippipopolous
(b) Marshal Ney
(c) Robert Cohn
(d) Aloysius Kirby

Short Answer Questions

1. Why doesn't Jake eat at Madame Lecomte's restaurant very often?

2. Where do Brett and Jake decide to go after leaving the dance-club?

3. What is Mike assigned to bring to Pamplona?

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

5. Why does Frances tell Robert not to have scenes with his young ladies?

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