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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. What type of artwork is hanging from the walls in Jake's hotel?

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

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

4. What is the term used for the hour after dinner when the pretty girls, officers from the garrison, and the fashionable people walk in the square of Pamplona and the cafes fill up?

5. What item does Pedro Romero give to his sword-handler to bring to Brett who is sitting in the stands?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What do Jake, Bill and the Basques do to pass the time on the bus to Burguete?

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

9. 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?

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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Evaluate the relationship between Mike Campbell and Brett Ashley.

2) Are they a good match?

3) How do they treat one another?

4) Is it an equal, strong partnership?

5) Do they accept one another for who they are?

Justify all answers.

Essay Topic 2

1) Analyze Robert Cohn's obsession with Lady Brett Ashley.

2) How do his feelings for Brett affect his fiancée, Frances?

3) What kind of an impact does his obsession have on Mike Campbell, Jake Barnes, and Pedro Romero?

4) Is his obsession with Brett ever resolved in the novel?

Essay Topic 3

1) Summarize how Hemingway uses local color to describe the Basque country while Jake and Bill are traveling.

2) Cite some examples of the countryside, dress, people, and customs.

3) Are Jake and Bill welcomed by the Basques? Explain.

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