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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. In a letter to Jake, what does Cohn tell Jake he has been doing in Hendaye?

2. What is Brett's response when the Count asks her to go to Biarritz, Cannes, or Monte Carlo?

3. How does Jake describe being in love to Brett?

4. Who asks Jake to lunch after he gets back to the office?

5. After his miserable night crying over Brett, Jake walks down the Boulevard to the rue Soufflot for breakfast. What is his frame of mind?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Cohn say he in his letter to Jake from Hendaye?

2. While dancing with Brett, Jake feels he is in a nightmare that he has had before and has to go through again. Why does he think this?

3. During a dance at the dance club, Brett and Jake have a conversation about Mike. What do they talk about?

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

5. Explain why Robert Cohn marries the first girl who is nice to him after he graduates from Princeton.

6. Compare the different ways that Jake and Brett feel about being in love with each other.

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

8. Jake and Bill share a train compartment with An American man, his wife, and their young son, Hubert. What are a few of the subjects they discuss?

9. Jake continues to feel miserable because he cannot be with Brett. He suggests that they live together. What is Brett's reply?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Jake's impotence is mentioned many times in the novel.

2) Analyze how the theme of impotence is presented in the novel and what it symbolizes.

3) How does impotence relate to other themes in the novel?

4) Use examples from the story to support the answer.

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) The theme of anti-Semitism appears many times throughout the novel.

2) Cite examples of anti-Semitism in the story and what effect it has on the characters.

3) Which characters are anti-Semitic?

4) How do they reveal their anti-Semitism?

5) Which characters are Jewish and how do they handle the prejudices against them?

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