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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 types of emotion do Jake and his friends feel after the bull fight is over?
(a) Subdued and disturbed
(b) Disturbed and elated
(c) Disgusted and drained
(d) Excited and aggressive

2. What is Cohn's reaction when Mike starts toward him from around the table to start a fight over Brett?
(a) Cohn waits proudly and firmly for Mike to assault him. He wants to show he will fight for Brett.
(b) Cohn mumbles something and leaves the hotel.
(c) Cohn hides behind Jake, asking him to stop Mike.
(d) Cohn backs up a few steps, then turns and runs.

3. What does Mike say to Brett after Cohn beats Pedro Romero?
(a) He tells her that he is sorry Romero got hurt.
(b) He asks her to go back to Paris with him.
(c) He says that Cohn is out of his mind.
(d) He tells her she should expect trouble if she associates with Jews and bull fighters.

4. Bill lectures Jake about being an expatriate. What does he say has ruined Jake?
(a) Not enough reading
(b) Fake European standards
(c) Too little caffeine
(d) Not enough exercise

5. How does Mike compare Cohn to a steer?
(a) He says that like a steer, Robert lives a quiet life, never has to say anything, and hangs around Brett where he is not wanted.
(b) He says that Robert is aggressive just like a steer, chasing after Brett.
(c) He says that Robert is always trying to keep the peace like a steer.
(d) He says that Robert can be sacrificed like a steer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Brett say about Cohn after she tells him that she and Jake want to be alone?

2. How do the spectators react when they feel they are cheated by Belmonte's bull fight?

3. How is Robert Cohn feeling while he and Jake wait for Brett's train to arrive?

4. Why were workmen putting up gate-posts that shut off the side streets in Pamplona?

5. What did it mean when the Basque said "Arriba" to Bill and Jake?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Cohn decide to do now that Brett is staying over in San Sebastian and what are Jake's feelings about it?

2. What does Cohn do when he finds Pedro Romero with Brett?

3. Is Mike Campbell justified in comparing Robert Cohen to one of the steers?

4. Compare the weather as Bill and Jake depart on the bus to Burguete and the weather upon their arrival at Burguete. What images are given to describe the weather?

5. How does Pedro Romero view the bulls that he fights?

6. Jake and Bill meet a Basque who lived in America forty years before. What parts of America had he visited and why did he return to Spain?

7. On the day the bull fights are to take place, Cohn tells Bill and Jake that he hopes he won't be bored at the bull fight. What is Bill's reaction to Cohn's comment?

8. Both Bill and Jake are irritated when Cohn says that he doesn't think Brett and Mike are going to show up when they are supposed to. What happens as a result of Cohn's annoying comments?

9. Summarize the description Jake gives of Basque country.

10. Jake receives a telegram from Brett saying that they are staying over in San Sebastian overnight and will be late. How does Jake treat Cohn after he reads the telegram?

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