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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did a Basque offer to Jake and Bill as they waited in the heat for the bus to leave for Burguete?
(a) A drink from a big leather wine bag
(b) Fruit from a wicker basket
(c) Raw meat wrapped in grape leaves
(d) Goat's milk

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

3. What part of the countryside did Jake's bus travel after stopping at the posada to drop off packages?
(a) Through farming country with rocky hills
(b) Through the crowded city streets
(c) Through a soot covered mill town
(d) Through rough, rocky plains

4. 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?
(a) Harris, Henry Ford, Roosevelt, and Wheeler
(b) Bishop Manning, Henry James, Fitzgerald, and Roosevelt
(c) Henry James, Abraham Lincoln, Grant, and Keats
(d) Bryan, Mencken, Frankie Fritsch, Bishop Manning, and Wayne Wheeler

5. What is the name of the bull fighter that Montoya introduces to Jake and Bill?
(a) Pedro Romero
(b) Jose Fermin
(c) Pedro Iruna
(d) Señor Gayarra

6. What is Cohn's reaction when Mike starts toward him from around the table to start a fight over Brett?
(a) Cohn waits proudly and firmly for Mike to assault him. He wants to show he will fight for Brett.
(b) Cohn hides behind Jake, asking him to stop Mike.
(c) Cohn backs up a few steps, then turns and runs.
(d) Cohn mumbles something and leaves the hotel.

7. How does dinner with Brett, Mike, Cohn, and Bill remind Jake of dinners during the war?
(a) There is a feeling that it will be their last dinner together.
(b) There is wine, ignored tension, and foreboding of what is to come.
(c) There is camaraderie between friends.
(d) There are arguments, hurt feelings, and fear.

8. What does Brett say about Cohn after she tells him that she and Jake want to be alone?
(a) She says that she is going away with Cohn for good.
(b) She says that she is leaving Mike for Cohn.
(c) She says that she is very fond of him and that it could lead to something more.
(d) She says that she is sick of him and he has behaved very badly.

9. Bill lectures Jake about being an expatriate. What does he say has ruined Jake?
(a) Too little caffeine
(b) Fake European standards
(c) Not enough exercise
(d) Not enough reading

10. Why were workmen putting up gate-posts that shut off the side streets in Pamplona?
(a) For the fiesta parade the next day
(b) To make a place for tying the spectator's horses during the bull fight
(c) So the women could hang flowers from the posts for the fiesta
(d) To prevent the bulls from running down the side streets when they were released into the street the next morning.

11. While on the bus, Bill and Jake have a conversation with an old man who says that he lived in America forty years ago. Why did he return to Spain?
(a) To get married
(b) He was broke.
(c) To attend his mother's funeral
(d) He missed his homeland.

12. What is one of the methods smugglers use to cross from France into Spain?
(a) They take boats down the stream.
(b) They try to convince other travelers to hide them in their vehicles.
(c) They wade across the stream.
(d) They wait for nightfall and sneak through the Spanish frontier.

13. How is Robert Cohn feeling while he and Jake wait for Brett's train to arrive?
(a) He is relaxed and pleasant.
(b) He is nonchalant.
(c) He is extremely nervous and eager.
(d) He is feverish and shaky.

14. Where does Jake go after he leaves the archivist's office?
(a) He walks back to the Hotel Montoya and takes a nap.
(b) He goes to the barber and takes a bath.
(c) He walks to the bull-fighting arena, sits in the stands and thinks.
(d) He walks to the cathedral, goes inside and prays.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the crowd do to Romero after the bullfights are over?

2. What is the reason Brett tells Jake she is a goner?

3. When Romero says that he kills his friends, to whom is he referring?

4. What is the cost for room and board at Jake's hotel in Burguete?

5. What will the spectators do on the morning of the first day of the bull fights?

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