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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

2. How does Pedro Romero's bull fighting invoke emotion in the crowd?
(a) He uses many tricks to make it look like he is in danger.
(b) He loudly cheers each time the bull passes him.
(c) He keeps the purity of line in his movements, letting the bull's horns pass closely by him.
(d) He corkscrews his body and leans away from the bull as it runs by.

3. How do the spectators react when they feel they are cheated by Belmonte's bull fight?
(a) Refuse to applaud
(b) Sit down in silence
(c) Turn their backs on him
(d) Yell insults and throw food

4. Bill mentions that Romero's face looks badly bruised. What is Brett's reply?
(a) That Romero is hurt, but he will be fine
(b) That Cohn is to blame.
(c) That Romero is badly hurt and should be in bed
(d) That it isn't as bad as it looks.

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

6. How are the houses in Burguete arranged?
(a) In city blocks
(b) Along both sides of the road and down side streets
(c) In a circle around the town
(d) Along both sides of the road with no side streets

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

8. 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) To attend his mother's funeral
(c) He missed his homeland.
(d) To get married

9. 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

10. What does Bill tell Jake he should be the minute he gets up in the morning?
(a) Ironical and full of pity
(b) Serious and ready to work
(c) Adamant and angry
(d) Comical and nonchalant

11. What fortune does Brett give to Pedro Romero when she reads his palm?
(a) He will fall in love very soon.
(b) There are thousands of bulls in his life and he will live a long time.
(c) He will live a long life but give up bull fighting.
(d) She sees fear in his palm.

12. What is morality, according to Jake?
(a) Being kind to one another
(b) Helping your neighbor
(c) What they teach in church.
(d) Things that make you disgusted.

13. How does Jake feel about Robert Cohn after Brett does not show up on the train?
(a) Jake is unforgiving and jealous of Cohn. He hates him and wants to hurt him.
(b) He lets bygones be bygones and forgives Cohn for going to San Sebastian with Brett.
(c) He thinks Cohn is a good friend and has a pleasant attitude.
(d) He sympathizes with Cohn's disappointment when Brett doesn't show up.

14. What is the procedure to cross the border from France into Spain?
(a) The Spanish carabineers do not bother with the bags, but check the passport.
(b) The Spanish carabineers empty every bag and check the passport.
(c) The Spanish carabineers open one bag and look at the passport.
(d) The Spanish carabineers do a full body search on each traveler and check the passport.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the religious festival celebrated on July 6?

2. 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?

3. As Jake, Bill, and Cohen drive across the plain to Pamplona, what is their first view of the town?

4. What does Mike say to Brett after Cohn beats Pedro Romero?

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

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