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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. As Jake, Bill, and Cohen drive across the plain to Pamplona, what is their first view of the town?
(a) The walls of Pamplona rise out of the plain, then a brown cathedral and other churches. The mountains are all around.
(b) Pamplona's walls lead up to the town which has only a bull ring in its center.
(c) Pamplona is obscured by forests on a flat piece of land.
(d) Pamplona is on top of a high mountain with small huts around the perimeter.

2. What is morality, according to Jake?
(a) Things that make you disgusted.
(b) Being kind to one another
(c) Helping your neighbor
(d) What they teach in church.

3. Bill mentions that Romero's face looks badly bruised. What is Brett's reply?
(a) That Cohn is to blame.
(b) That Romero is badly hurt and should be in bed
(c) That it isn't as bad as it looks.
(d) That Romero is hurt, but he will be fine

4. What part of the countryside did Jake's bus travel after stopping at the posada to drop off packages?
(a) Through farming country with rocky hills
(b) Through rough, rocky plains
(c) Through the crowded city streets
(d) Through a soot covered mill town

5. How long does the fiesta last?
(a) Day and night for three days
(b) One day and night
(c) Only daytime celebrations for seven days
(d) Day and night for seven days

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the procedure to cross the border from France into Spain?

2. What fortune does Brett give to Pedro Romero when she reads his palm?

3. What meal is served to Jake and Bill their first night in the hotel?

4. What does the crowd do to Romero after the bullfights are over?

5. Where did Brett's husband, Ashley, make her sleep?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. How did Pedro Romero perform in the bull ring after getting a severe beating from Robert Cohn?

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

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

7. 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?

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

9. What are the feelings that Brett reveals to Jake about Pedro Romero?

10. 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?

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