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

2. What is the name of the man who was gored through the back and killed during the bull run?
(a) Montoya
(b) Mike Campbell
(c) Vincente Girones
(d) Pedro Romero

3. What keepsake does Romero hand to Brett after he kills the last bull?
(a) The bloody cape
(b) His sword
(c) The bull's severed ear
(d) The bull's severed tongue

4. What does Bill reveal to Jake after they finish bantering about Henry's bicycle?
(a) He says that Jake needs to stop being such a whiner.
(b) He says that Jake is more annoying than anyone else he knows.
(c) He says that Jake is a good guy and Bill is fonder of him than anyone else.
(d) He says that Jake is too sensitive.

5. 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) So the women could hang flowers from the posts for the fiesta
(c) To prevent the bulls from running down the side streets when they were released into the street the next morning.
(d) For the fiesta parade the next day

6. 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 each of them an envelope with flies for fishing.
(c) He gives them each a new rod.
(d) He gives them each a bottle of wine.

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

8. What types of emotion do Jake and his friends feel after the bull fight is over?
(a) Disgusted and drained
(b) Disturbed and elated
(c) Excited and aggressive
(d) Subdued and disturbed

9. What meal is served to Jake and Bill their first night in the hotel?
(a) Vegetable soup, fried trout, stew, strawberries and wine
(b) Salad, eggs, olives, hot rum
(c) Roast chicken, grapes, boiled vegetables, and wine
(d) Fried steak, olives, grapes, wine

10. What does Mike say to Brett after Cohn beats Pedro Romero?
(a) He says that Cohn is out of his mind.
(b) He tells her she should expect trouble if she associates with Jews and bull fighters.
(c) He asks her to go back to Paris with him.
(d) He tells her that he is sorry Romero got hurt.

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

12. What does Robert Cohn do when he finds Brett and Pedro Romero in bed together?
(a) He gives Romero a brutal beating.
(b) He runs out the door crying.
(c) He slaps Brett and drags her out the door.
(d) He screams that he never wants to see Brett again.

13. What advice does Bill give Jake about dreaming after they wake up from their afternoon nap?
(a) Dreaming is for children.
(b) Jake should dream because all the successful businessmen are dreamers.
(c) Don't pay any attention to dreams. They don't have any meaning.
(d) Dreaming eases the burdens of the day.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What type of artwork is hanging from the walls in Jake's hotel?

3. What is the condition of the countryside in the Basque country?

4. What is the name of the hotel that Jake, Bill and Cohen stay at in Pamplona?

5. What did a Basque offer to Jake and Bill as they waited in the heat for the bus to leave for Burguete?

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