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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 advice do people offer Jake about his war injury that he resents so much?
(a) They tell him not to think about it.
(b) They tell him it is not important and he shouldn't worry about it.
(c) They tell him he is lucky; it could have been worse.
(d) They say it is better than getting killed.

2. Jake is awakened at 4:30 in the morning by a loud voice downstairs arguing with the concierge. Who comes looking for him at his flat?
(a) Brett
(b) Cohn
(c) Braddocks
(d) Georgette

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

4. What does Brett say she did while in San Sebastian?
(a) She never went out and didn't do anything.
(b) She prayed at the Basílica de Santa María del Coro.
(c) She visited all the cafes in the area.
(d) She went sun bathing at the beach.

5. Robert Cohn moves to California and uses the remainder of his fifty thousand dollars to back and become sole editor of what magazine?
(a) The Fine Arts and Music Magazine
(b) Review of the Arts
(c) The California Coastline
(d) The Princeton Review

Short Answer Questions

1. After five years of marriage, three children and spending close to fifty thousand dollars, what does Robert Cohn's rich wife do?

2. As Jake watches Brett walk up the street from his flat and get into the Count's limousine, what is he thinking?

3. How does Jake describe being in love to Brett?

4. Who does Brett leave the dance-club with?

5. What is the view Jake and Bill have from the train as they pass through Landes?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

5. During a dance at the dance club, Brett and Jake have a conversation about Mike. What do they talk about?

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

7. As Jake lies in bed trying to sleep, what does he continue to think about?

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

9. 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?

10. 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?

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