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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is an aficionado?
(a) A person who is passionate about the bull-fights
(b) Someone who over indulges in wine
(c) A woman who throws flowers at the bull-fights
(d) A person who brings the bulls to the arena

2. What is the cost for room and board at Jake's hotel in Burguete?
(a) Twelve pesetas, which Jake feels is too much
(b) Five pesetas, which Jake feels is reasonable
(c) Seven pesetas, but the wine is included
(d) Three pesetas, which is cheap

3. What will the spectators do on the morning of the first day of the bull fights?
(a) They will stay inside, not looking at the bulls until the fight.
(b) They will run down the street behind the bulls.
(c) They will run down the street with the bulls behind them.
(d) They will stay back behind the posts and let the bulls run past.

4. When Jake returns to his room after his fight with Cohn, Bill tells him that Cohn wants to see him. What does Cohn want from Jake?
(a) To continue the fight
(b) An apology
(c) Forgiveness
(d) The whereabouts of Brett

5. What does Mike say to Brett after Cohn beats Pedro Romero?
(a) He tells her she should expect trouble if she associates with Jews and bull fighters.
(b) He says that Cohn is out of his mind.
(c) He tells her that he is sorry Romero got hurt.
(d) He asks her to go back to Paris with him.

6. What is the reason Brett tells Jake she is a goner?
(a) She finds out she is very sick.
(b) She is hopelessly in love with Pedro Romero.
(c) She is still in love with Jake.
(d) She thinks she drinks too much.

7. What is the term used for the hour after dinner when the pretty girls, officers from the garrison, and the fashionable people walk in the square of Pamplona and the cafes fill up?
(a) The aficio
(b) The sombra
(c) The fiesta
(d) The paseo

8. How does Jake feel after the fiesta and the bull fighting?
(a) Depressed
(b) Indifferent
(c) Homesick
(d) Excited

9. What keepsake does Romero hand to Brett after he kills the last bull?
(a) The bull's severed ear
(b) His sword
(c) The bloody cape
(d) The bull's severed tongue

10. What is the name of the man who was gored through the back and killed during the bull run?
(a) Montoya
(b) Pedro Romero
(c) Vincente Girones
(d) Mike Campbell

11. What is Cohn's response when Bill suggests that he not look at the horses when the bull gores them?
(a) Cohn is afraid he will not be able to look at the dying horses.
(b) Cohn says that he is only worried that he will be bored.
(c) Cohn is worried he might faint at the sight of the horse's blood.
(d) Cohn tells Bill to mind his own business.

12. What is the description Jake gives of the town of Bayonne?
(a) A smelly Spanish town with a rancid river running through it
(b) A dirty Spanish town, cluttered with litter
(c) A nice Spanish town, very clean, on a large river
(d) A gloomy Spanish town with dark, unkempt streets

13. When Romero says that he kills his friends, to whom is he referring?
(a) The other bull fighters
(b) Some of his old class mates
(c) The picadores
(d) The bulls

14. What is it called when the bulls are let into the corral with the steers?
(a) Desencajonada
(b) Ustedes
(c) Picadores
(d) Aficionado

15. Did Jake and Bill have any luck fishing after their long hike into the valley of the Rio de la Fabrica?
(a) They each catch one trout.
(b) Jake catches six trout and Bill catches four.
(c) They don't get any bites all morning.
(d) Jake catches six trout but Bill has no luck.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Jake and Bill stay warm after they finish their evening meal?

2. What is morality, according to Jake?

3. What is Jake's philosophy that everything that is good has to be paid for?

4. What is the name of the hotel that Jake, Bill and Cohen stay at in Pamplona?

5. Bill and Jake sit down to eat lunch after fishing and have an amusing conversation about the different men they went to college with. Which men do they mention?

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