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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 but he will find them a spot for ten francs.
(b) They are all reserved. There is nothing available until the fifth at three-thirty.
(c) They can have tickets to the second serving.
(d) He gives them tickets and tells them to enjoy the ride.

3. 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) Robert Cohn
(b) Brett Ashley
(c) Harvey Stone
(d) Braddocks

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

5. When does Brett say she is going to marry Michael?
(a) When Michael's family gives them the money for the wedding
(b) As soon as he returns to Paris
(c) As soon as they can get the divorce
(d) When he finds a better job

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

7. Why does the concierge of Jake's flat changer her opinion of Brett?
(a) She discovers that Brett is rude, crude, and ignorant.
(b) She sees that Brett is a shrew who should be avoided.
(c) She sees that Brett is very nice, of a good family and very gentile.
(d) She sees that Brett is from a low class family, penniless and a fortune hunter.

8. Where was the Count when he received his wounds?
(a) On a business trip
(b) On a naval ship
(c) Fighting in a revolution
(d) In the Italian front

9. What is Jake referring to when he says to Brett, "you like to add them up."?
(a) Brett adds up the number of shoes she owns, buying a new pair every week.
(b) Brett likes to hang all her dresses in color coordinated order.
(c) Brett adds up the number of brandies she drinks when she goes out.
(d) Brett enjoys it when more and more men become infatuated with her.

10. A forceful woman, Frances, hopes to gain success working with Robert Cohn on the magazine. She urges him to go to Europe with her when the magazine shuts down. What else did she want from him?
(a) Marriage
(b) A partnership in a new magazine
(c) Children
(d) Money

11. Who does Jake share a taxi with after the press conference at Quai d'Orsay?
(a) Woolsey and Krum
(b) Braddocks and Cohn
(c) Cohn and Brett
(d) Brett and Georgette

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

13. Where does Brett tell Jake she is going?
(a) San Sebastian
(b) England
(c) America
(d) Africa

14. 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) Frances throws water in his face.
(c) Cohn kicks him under the table.
(d) Frances kicks him under the table.

15. What is Harvey's opinion of Robert Cohn?
(a) He is a moron.
(b) He is a witty, humorous man.
(c) He is a wonderful novelist.
(d) He is a trustworthy friend.

Short Answer Questions

1. Robert Cohen changes his lifestyle after reading "The Purple Land" by W. H. Hudson. What is the theme of this novel?

2. What happens to Bill Gorton during his stay in Vienna?

3. How does Jake react when Brett tells him she was in San Sebastian with Cohn?

4. Georgette asks Jake what is wrong with him, since he doesn't want her to touch him. What does he reply?

5. What is Brett's formal title?

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