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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 are Jake and Bill Gorton planning to do during their trip to Spain?
(a) See an opera and do some fishing
(b) Tour the Basque country and relax in Barcelona
(c) Visit the vineyards in Pamplona
(d) Do some fishing and go to the festival in Pamplona

2. 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 Princeton Review
(b) The Fine Arts and Music Magazine
(c) Review of the Arts
(d) The California Coastline

3. What news does Frances Clyne reveal to Jake when she asks him to go with her to the Dome?
(a) She tells Jake that Cohn does not want to marry her anymore and that he hasn't lived enough.
(b) She informs Jake that Cohn wants Jake to be his best man for their wedding.
(c) She wants Jake to arrange a surprise bachelor party for Cohn.
(d) She tells Jake that she doesn't want Jake in the wedding.

4. Jake and Cohn get into an argument during lunch. What is the argument about?
(a) Jake is furious when Cohn makes a joke about his war injury.
(b) Cohn is insulted when Jake tells him to leave Frances because she is no good for him.
(c) Cohn is angry that Jake insults Brett by saying she married someone she didn't love, twice. Jake also tells him to go to hell.
(d) Jake is sick and tired of hearing about South America, telling Cohn to drop the subject.

5. Jake feels he did not give an accurate picture of Robert Cohn. What does he add to his description of Cohn?
(a) Cohn is an excellent tennis player with a good, athletic body. He is nice to other people, cheerful and didn't get angry when beaten in tennis.
(b) Cohn is a conceited, self-centered man who is a sore loser at tennis.
(c) Cohn is superficial, only caring about what he wears and how he looks.
(d) Cohn insults other people constantly, looking for ways to start arguments.

Short Answer Questions

1. What advice do people offer Jake about his war injury that he resents so much?

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

3. What does Jake ask himself as he leaves Frances and Cohn in the café?

4. What is Jake referring to when he says to Brett, "you like to add them up."?

5. What advice does Jake give to Robert Cohn when they go to the café below Jakes office?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. Summarize the lengthy description Jake gives of Robert Cohen in this chapter.

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

4. Can you predict what might happen to Robert Cohen by Jake's comment that Cohn never made a nasty remark to anyone until he fell in love with Brett?

5. Why does Brett flirt with so many men and keep an accounting of how many men become infatuated with her?

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

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

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

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

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

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