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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. After five years of marriage, three children and spending close to fifty thousand dollars, what does Robert Cohn's rich wife do?
(a) She tells him she would like to get a job.
(b) She announces that she is pregnant again.
(c) She leaves him for a painter of miniatures.
(d) She gives him a surprise anniversary party.

2. As Jake watches Brett walk up the street from his flat and get into the Count's limousine, what is he thinking?
(a) He thinks that he should be getting back to bed.
(b) He thinks that it is easy to be brave and ignore things in the daytime, but at night, all the worries and heartache returns.
(c) He wonders what it would be like if he was able to have a normal relationship with Brett.
(d) He thinks that he should have gone with Brett when she offered to bring him to Zelli's.

3. Robert Cohn falls asleep in Jakes office and talks in his sleep. What does he say?
(a) He says that he has to go to South America. He just has to.
(b) He says that his life is passing him by. He's losing his way.
(c) He says that he can't do it. Nothing will make him do it.
(d) He says that he doesn't want it to happen to him.

4. Who does Brett's friend, Zizi, introduce her to when she and Jake go into the Café Select?
(a) Robert Cohn
(b) Marshal Ney
(c) Count Mippipopolous
(d) Aloysius Kirby

5. How does Jake justify the insulting things he says?
(a) He says that he is only telling the truth.
(b) He says that he had a rough night and isn't thinking straight.
(c) He explains that he has a nasty tongue but he doesn't mean what he says.
(d) He blames his attitude on his war injury.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Brett's response when the Count asks her to go to Biarritz, Cannes, or Monte Carlo?

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

3. When Jake and Bill try to get tickets for the first lunch service on the train, what does the conductor tell them?

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

5. After his miserable night crying over Brett, Jake walks down the Boulevard to the rue Soufflot for breakfast. What is his frame of mind?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the condition of Jake's friend, Harvey Stone.

2. 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?

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

4. Compare the different ways that Jake and Brett feel about being in love with each other.

5. Robert Cohn gets his novel published in America. How does his personality change when he returns to Paris?

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

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

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

9. Cohn divorces after five years of marriage and another woman takes control of his life. Who is this woman and what does she expect to get from Cohn?

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

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