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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Jake ask Georgette, the prostitute, to have dinner with him?

2. How does Mike feel about missing the fight and staying with Brett for the evening?

3. Robert Cohn falls asleep in Jakes office and talks in his sleep. What does he say?

4. What happens to Jake when he suggests he and Cohn go to Strasbourg for the weekend to meet a girl he knows there?

5. Jake tells Brett that he loves her so much and makes a suggestion to her. What is the suggestion?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Jake feels sorry for Cohn because he is bored with his life, but why can't Jake help him?

3. As Jake lies in bed trying to sleep, what does he continue to think about?

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

5. Count Mippipopolous enjoys everything life has to offer. What explanation does he five for this?

6. 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?

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

8. 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?

9. Why did Robert Cohn take up boxing while attending Princeton?

10. What prompts Jake to ask the street girl, Georgette to dinner?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) The feelings of the characters seem to change dramatically by the end of the novel.

2) How do the main characters feel about themselves at the beginning of the story?

3) How do they feel at the end of the story?

4) How do they feel about each other at the start of the novel and how do they feel at the end?

Essay Topic 2

1) Frances tells Jake that Cohn fired his secretary when she asked him to.

2) What does this reveal about the character of Robert Cohn?

3) What does it reveal about Frances's character?

4) Are their actions admirable or not? Why?

5) What emotions provoke the two of them to act this way?

Essay Topic 3

1) Explain whether or not you think Jake Barnes changes during the course of the novel.

2) Keep in mind his self-knowledge, his thoughts about other characters, his values, and his ability to accept and cope with his situation.

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