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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 type of artwork is hanging from the walls in Jake's hotel?
(a) Portraits of famous visitors to the hotel
(b) Dead rabbits, dead pheasants, and dead ducks
(c) Bull-fighting paintings
(d) Spanish landscapes

2. What will the spectators do on the morning of the first day of the bull fights?
(a) They will run down the street with the bulls behind them.
(b) They will stay inside, not looking at the bulls until the fight.
(c) They will stay back behind the posts and let the bulls run past.
(d) They will run down the street behind the bulls.

3. How does Jake feel after the fiesta and the bull fighting?
(a) Homesick
(b) Depressed
(c) Indifferent
(d) Excited

4. What fortune does Brett give to Pedro Romero when she reads his palm?
(a) He will live a long life but give up bull fighting.
(b) She sees fear in his palm.
(c) He will fall in love very soon.
(d) There are thousands of bulls in his life and he will live a long time.

5. Why were workmen putting up gate-posts that shut off the side streets in Pamplona?
(a) For the fiesta parade the next day
(b) To make a place for tying the spectator's horses during the bull fight
(c) So the women could hang flowers from the posts for the fiesta
(d) To prevent the bulls from running down the side streets when they were released into the street the next morning.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bill reveal to Jake after they finish bantering about Henry's bicycle?

2. Bill lectures Jake about being an expatriate. What does he say has ruined Jake?

3. What is the weather like when Jake and Bill arrive in Burguete?

4. Jake says that the first meal in Spain is "always a shock". What does the meal consist of?

5. What is the mood of Jake, Brett, and Cohn on the day before the fiesta?

Short Essay Questions

1. Cohn wants to see Jake after knocking him unconscious. Does Jake go to see Cohn or does he decide against it? Explain.

2. 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?

3. Explain how the fist fight between Robert Cohn and Jake Barnes gets started?

4. Relate why Montoya, the hotel owner in Pamplona, smiles at Jake and asks if Bill is an aficionado?

5. 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?

6. Why is the bull fighter, Romero, the main attraction of all the bull fighters?

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

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

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

10. What type of personal conversations do Bill and Jake get into while they are in the countryside fishing?

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