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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Robert Cohn do while Jake works for two hours in the office?
(a) He helps Jake sort out carbons.
(b) He reads papers and falls asleep.
(c) He stuffs manila envelopes for Jake.
(d) He looks out the window at the Paris streets.

2. Where does Jake tell Cohn that he met Brett?
(a) He met her in a bar in America.
(b) She was a V.A.D. in a hospital he was in during the war.
(c) They met while on a cruise to England.
(d) He first saw her in a café in Paris.

3. The Count boasts that he has been around. Where has he been?
(a) He has traveled across America.
(b) He has been all over Europe.
(c) He has been in seven wars and four revolutions.
(d) He has sailed around the world.

4. Who does Jake say are the only people who live their lives to the fullest?
(a) Bullfighters
(b) Artists
(c) Horse racers
(d) African safari hunters

5. What excuses do Brett and Jake give when the Count suggests that they get married?
(a) They say that they are incompatible and argue too much.
(b) They say that they want to live their own lives and have their careers.
(c) They say that they don't want to be tied down and are only friends.
(d) They say that they are not the marrying kind and are not ready to settle down.

Short Answer Questions

1. Robert Cohn offers to pay Jake's expenses if he will go to what __place with him?

2. Who asks Jake to lunch after he gets back to the office?

3. Bill Gorton says that Vienna "is a strange city". What city does he compare it to?

4. What advice do people offer Jake about his war injury that he resents so much?

5. How does Jake justify the insulting things he says?

Short Essay Questions

1. Can you predict what might happen to Robert Cohen by Jake's comment that Cohn never made a nasty remark to anyone until he fell in love with Brett?

2. What words of wisdom does Jake give to Robert Cohn about traveling and trying to escape from himself?

3. While dancing with Brett, Jake feels he is in a nightmare that he has had before and has to go through again. Why does he think this?

4. Jake feels sorry for Cohn because he is bored with his life, but why can't Jake help him?

5. Why don't Jake and Bill get to eat lunch until three-thirty in the afternoon when they are traveling on the train to Bayonne? What is Bill's reaction?

6. Why does Brett flirt with so many men and keep an accounting of how many men become infatuated with her?

7. Discuss Brett's reaction when Jake kisses her in the taxi?

8. Why does Robert Cohn become obsessed about going to South America?

9. Summarize how Jake amuses himself while Brett is in San Sebastian and Cohn is out of town?

10. What prompts Jake to ask the street girl, Georgette to dinner?

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