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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. Where does Jake go after he leaves the archivist's office?
(a) He walks back to the Hotel Montoya and takes a nap.
(b) He walks to the cathedral, goes inside and prays.
(c) He goes to the barber and takes a bath.
(d) He walks to the bull-fighting arena, sits in the stands and thinks.

2. While on the bus, Bill and Jake have a conversation with an old man who says that he lived in America forty years ago. Why did he return to Spain?
(a) He missed his homeland.
(b) He was broke.
(c) To attend his mother's funeral
(d) To get married

3. 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 is obscured by forests on a flat piece of land.
(c) Pamplona's walls lead up to the town which has only a bull ring in its center.
(d) Pamplona is on top of a high mountain with small huts around the perimeter.

4. How is Robert Cohn feeling while he and Jake wait for Brett's train to arrive?
(a) He is extremely nervous and eager.
(b) He is feverish and shaky.
(c) He is relaxed and pleasant.
(d) He is nonchalant.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Romero says that he kills his friends, to whom is he referring?

3. What is Cohn's reaction when Mike starts toward him from around the table to start a fight over Brett?

4. What types of emotion do Jake and his friends feel after the bull fight is over?

5. How does Mike compare Cohn to a steer?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What are Jake's thoughts as he lies in bed after the evening with Bill, Mike and Brett?

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

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

5. 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?

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

7. Bill calls Jake an expatriate. What does he mean by this?

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

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

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

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