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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 is an aficionado?
2. What types of emotion do Jake and his friends feel after the bull fight is over?
3. What does the crowd do to Romero after the bullfights are over?
4. Bill and Jake sit down to eat lunch after fishing and have an amusing conversation about the different men they went to college with. Which men do they mention?
5. What do Jake, Bill and Cohn decide to do after Jake receives the telegram from Brett says she and Mike stopped in San Sebastian for the night?
Short Essay Questions
1. What type of personal conversations do Bill and Jake get into while they are in the countryside fishing?
2. Cohn wants to see Jake after knocking him unconscious. Does Jake go to see Cohn or does he decide against it? Explain.
3. Relate why Montoya, the hotel owner in Pamplona, smiles at Jake and asks if Bill is an aficionado?
4. What took place during the paseo in Pamplona?
5. What are Jake's thoughts as he lies in bed after the evening with Bill, Mike and Brett?
6. What are the feelings that Brett reveals to Jake about Pedro Romero?
7. Explain how the fist fight between Robert Cohn and Jake Barnes gets started?
8. Bill calls Jake an expatriate. What does he mean by this?
9. How do the pictures on the walls of Jake's and Bill's hotel in Burguete add to the coldness of the room?
10. Summarize the description Jake gives of Basque country.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
1) Write an introduction to the novel discussing Hemingway's writing style.
2) Include his use of dialogue, point of view of the narrator, and how it affects the story, and the inference of Hemingway's personal life.
Essay Topic 2
1) Interpret the feelings Jake and Brett have for each other.
2) Are their emotions authentic or shallow? Why?
3) Are they truthful with each other or secretive? Explain.
4) What regrets do they have at the end of the novel with regard to their relationship?
Essay Topic 3
1) Do you think Jake is truthful as the narrator?
2) Describe his emotions while he tells the story.
3) Is he jealous, angry, drunk, tolerant or impartial?
4) Cite examples from the novel.
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