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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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 stay back behind the posts and let the bulls run past.
(c) They will run down the street behind the bulls.
(d) They will run down the street with the bulls behind them.

5. Why do all the passengers sit on top of the bus before it leaves for Baguete?
(a) It is too smelly inside the bus.
(b) The inside of the bus is full of packages.
(c) It is such a hot day; they sit on top of the bus and fan themselves.
(d) To get a better view of the town

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

7. 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 take the noon bus for Burguete.
(b) They decide to go to San Sebastian to meet Brett and Mike.
(c) They decide that Jake and Cohn will go on to Burgete, and Bill will wait for Brett.
(d) They decide to wait until the next day before they go to Burguete.

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

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

10. 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 but Bill has no luck.
(c) Jake catches six trout and Bill catches four.
(d) They don't get any bites all morning.

11. What does the bull fight critic say about Pedro Romero's performance in the ring when Jake is having a drink with them?
(a) He says that Romero is just an amateur.
(b) He says that Romero is the best fighter he has ever seen.
(c) He says that Romero should find another line of work.
(d) He says that Romero's work is good but incomplete.

12. Why does Cohn start a fight with Jake at the Cafe Suizo and knock him out?
(a) Jake refuses to tell him where Brett is.
(b) Jake tells Cohn to find other friends.
(c) Jake tells Cohn that he loves Brett.
(d) Cohn is angry that Jake takes Mike's side against him.

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

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why are Jake and Bill annoyed by the telegram from Cohn that says he will be arriving Thursday?

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

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?

5. Bill mentions that Romero's face looks badly bruised. What is Brett's reply?

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