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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 Mike assigned to bring to Pamplona?
(a) A case of wine
(b) Extra money for playing bridge
(c) Extra money for the nightlife
(d) Two rods with reels, lines and flies

2. According to Cohn, what is the reason Frances would not go to South America with him?
(a) She doesn't like foreign countries.
(b) She is afraid to travel.
(c) She wouldn't like South America. She likes to be around a lot of people.
(d) She thinks South America is the wilderness.

3. When Jake and Bill try to get tickets for the first lunch service on the train, what does the conductor tell them?
(a) They are all reserved but he will find them a spot for ten francs.
(b) They are all reserved. There is nothing available until the fifth at three-thirty.
(c) They can have tickets to the second serving.
(d) He gives them tickets and tells them to enjoy the ride.

4. Jake meets Brett and Mike at the Dingo and Mike is a bit drunk. What does Mike ask Jake at the time?
(a) He asks if Jake is still in love with Brett.
(b) He asks if he said anything embarrassing the night before.
(c) He asks if he and Brett can go to Pamplona with Jake and Bill.
(d) He asks if Cohn is in love with Brett.

5. After graduating from Princeton, Robert Cohn is bitter and self-conscious. What is one of the first things he does?
(a) He marries the first girl who is nice to him.
(b) He falls into depression.
(c) He goes on an extended European trip.
(d) He joins the army.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Jake share a taxi with after the press conference at Quai d'Orsay?

2. Why does Krum have a difficult time going out to the Dingo or the Select?

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

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

5. When Robert Cohn returns to Paris from America, he is a changed man. In what way does he change?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. Bill and Jake meet Mike Campbell and Brett at the café, Select. What is Mike's condition?

3. 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?

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

5. Brett comes to Jake's room late at night with Count Mippipopolous. They ask him to go to Zelli's. Jake refuses the invitation. As they drive away, what does Jake think about the night?

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

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

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

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

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

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