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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 is the financial status of Robert Cohn's parents who reside in New York?
(a) They are unemployed with a bleak future.
(b) They are low income, struggling to survive.
(c) They are one of the richest Jewish, New York families.
(d) They are middle class working people.

2. Who does Jake share a taxi with after the press conference at Quai d'Orsay?
(a) Woolsey and Krum
(b) Cohn and Brett
(c) Brett and Georgette
(d) Braddocks and Cohn

3. There are seven cars on the train full of Catholic Americans from Dayton, Ohio. Where are they headed?
(a) They are going to the bull-fights in Spain.
(b) They are planning a fishing trip.
(c) They are on a pilgrimage to Rome, Biarritz, and Lourdes.
(d) They are touring the basilicas in Spain.

4. Why does Robert Cohn go to America after three years in Europe?
(a) He wants to see his children.
(b) He teaches a literary class at Princeton.
(c) He goes to visit his mother.
(d) His novel is accepted at a publishing company in America.

5. Why doesn't Brett want Jake to touch her?
(a) She loves him and can't stand that they are unable to do anything about it.
(b) She loves someone else.
(c) She has no feelings for him.
(d) She is not feeling well.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does Brett's friend, Zizi, introduce her to when she and Jake go into the Café Select?

3. Why is Frances saying terrible, sarcastic comments to Cohn in front of Jake at the café?

4. Jake feels he did not give an accurate picture of Robert Cohn. What does he add to his description of Cohn?

5. What does Jake do to pass the time while Brett and Robert Cohn are out of town?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When Bill Gorton arrives in Paris to see Jake; he says that his trip to Vienna did not go so well. What was the problem with the trip?

3. What does Cohn say he in his letter to Jake from Hendaye?

4. Jake has lunch with Cohn and once again, Cohn asks Jake about South America. Jake tells Cohn to go with his fiancée, Frances. What is Cohn's reply?

5. How does Jake describe Cohn's first encounter with Lady Brett Ashley?

6. Jake and Bill share a train compartment with An American man, his wife, and their young son, Hubert. What are a few of the subjects they discuss?

7. 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?

8. What is pernod and what type of reaction does a person have after drinking it?

9. Why does Cohn send his fiancée, Frances back to England to visit friends?

10. Mike asks Jake if he and Brett can go to Spain with him. Jake agrees and Brett asks if it will be too hard on Cohn. Why doesn't Jake understand this question and what is his reaction when he finds out?

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