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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why are Jake and Bill annoyed by the telegram from Cohn that says he will be arriving Thursday?
(a) The overly long message annoys them.
(b) The tone of the message annoys them.
(c) The short, abrupt message annoys them.
(d) The lateness of the message annoys them.

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

4. 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 believes money will buy anything.
(d) He says that it is paid by learning, by experience, by taking chances, or by money.

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

6. 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 nice Spanish town, very clean, on a large river
(c) A dirty Spanish town, cluttered with litter
(d) A gloomy Spanish town with dark, unkempt streets

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

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

9. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Bill tell Jake he should be the minute he gets up in the morning?

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

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

5. What keepsake does Romero hand to Brett after he kills the last bull?

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