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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) He was broke.
(b) He missed his homeland.
(c) To attend his mother's funeral
(d) To get married

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

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

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

5. What gifts does Wilson-Harris give to Jake and Bill when they leave for Pamplona?
(a) He gives each of them an envelope with flies for fishing.
(b) He gives them each a goatskin flask.
(c) He gives them each a bottle of wine.
(d) He gives them each a new rod.

6. How long does the fiesta last?
(a) Only daytime celebrations for seven days
(b) One day and night
(c) Day and night for seven days
(d) Day and night for three days

7. What is Jake's philosophy that everything that is good has to be paid for?
(a) He says that payment is made by living life.
(b) He says that payment is made by working hard.
(c) He says that it is paid by learning, by experience, by taking chances, or by money.
(d) He believes money will buy anything.

8. What is the mood of Jake, Brett, and Cohn on the day before the fiesta?
(a) They are ill from too much wine the night before.
(b) They feel guilty for the argument the night before.
(c) They are uncomfortable and edgy.
(d) They feel good, healthy and friendly.

9. What do Jake, Bill and Cohn decide to do after Jake receives the telegram from Brett says she and Mike stopped in San Sebastian for the night?
(a) They decide to wait until the next day before they go to Burguete.
(b) They decide to take the noon bus for Burguete.
(c) They decide that Jake and Cohn will go on to Burgete, and Bill will wait for Brett.
(d) They decide to go to San Sebastian to meet Brett and Mike.

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

11. What do Bill and Cohn make a bet over while eating at the Hotel Montoya?
(a) Cohn bets Bill one hundred pesetas that Brett and Mike will show up the next day.
(b) Bill bets Cohn fifty pesetas that Brett and Mike arrive that evening. Cohen says that they won't come.
(c) Cohn bets Bill that he will not be able to finish all the courses of the Spanish meal.
(d) Cohn bets Bill that he will not last to the end of the brutal bull fights.

12. What did it mean when the Basque said "Arriba" to Bill and Jake?
(a) Lift it up
(b) Put it down
(c) Stop drinking
(d) Put the cork on

13. What is the name of the hotel that Jake, Bill and Cohen stay at in Pamplona?
(a) Hotel Montoya
(b) Hotel Bayonne
(c) Hotel Basque
(d) Hotel Torino

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

15. What type of artwork is hanging from the walls in Jake's hotel?
(a) Spanish landscapes
(b) Portraits of famous visitors to the hotel
(c) Dead rabbits, dead pheasants, and dead ducks
(d) Bull-fighting paintings

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Jake go after he leaves the archivist's office?

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

3. What is Cohn's reaction when Mike starts toward him from around the table to start a fight over Brett?

4. What is the weather like when Jake and Bill arrive in Burguete?

5. Jake says that the first meal in Spain is "always a shock". What does the meal consist of?

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