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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 Jake referring to when he says to Brett, "you like to add them up."?
(a) Brett likes to hang all her dresses in color coordinated order.
(b) Brett adds up the number of brandies she drinks when she goes out.
(c) Brett adds up the number of shoes she owns, buying a new pair every week.
(d) Brett enjoys it when more and more men become infatuated with her.

2. Bill is so annoyed about eating lunch at quarter past four that he stops a priest who is coming back from lunch. What comment does he make to the priest?
(a) He asks if all the Catholics enjoyed making everyone else on the train wait for lunch.
(b) He inquires about the quality of the food and if there is any left.
(c) He asks if the next time, the Catholics can be the last to be served.
(d) He wants to know when the Protestants get to eat and it makes him want to join the Klan.

3. Robert Cohn offers to pay Jake's expenses if he will go to what __place with him?
(a) Amsterdam
(b) Africa
(c) South America
(d) Spain

4. When does Brett say she is going to marry Michael?
(a) When Michael's family gives them the money for the wedding
(b) As soon as they can get the divorce
(c) As soon as he returns to Paris
(d) When he finds a better job

5. What does Jake do to pass the time while Brett and Robert Cohn are out of town?
(a) He works, goes to the races, dines with friends and puts extra time in at the office.
(b) He begins writing his first novel.
(c) He drinks too much and pines over Brett.
(d) He mopes around, feeling sorry for himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jake do when he gets to his office after breakfast?

2. Jake meets Brett and Mike at the Dingo and Mike is a bit drunk. What does Mike ask Jake at the time?

3. Why does the concierge of Jake's flat changer her opinion of Brett?

4. Why doesn't Jake eat at Madame Lecomte's restaurant very often?

5. Why does Frances tell Robert not to have scenes with his young ladies?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain why Robert Cohn marries the first girl who is nice to him after he graduates from Princeton.

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. Count Mippipopolous enjoys everything life has to offer. What explanation does he five for this?

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

5. Why did Robert Cohn take up boxing while attending Princeton?

6. Jake continues to feel miserable because he cannot be with Brett. He suggests that they live together. What is Brett's reply?

7. How does Mike Campbell show his love for Brett?

8. How does Jake justify saying nasty things about Brett to Robert Cohn?

9. Describe Jake's frame of mind the morning after he is so distraught over Brett's leaving with Count Mippipopolous.

10. Why does Cohn resort to kicking Jake under the table when Jake suggests they meet a girl he knows in Strasbourg?

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