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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. How do the spectators react when they feel they are cheated by Belmonte's bull fight?

2. How does Jake feel after the fiesta and the bull fighting?

3. Did Jake and Bill have any luck fishing after their long hike into the valley of the Rio de la Fabrica?

4. What did a Basque offer to Jake and Bill as they waited in the heat for the bus to leave for Burguete?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. 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?

5. Summarize the description Jake gives of Basque country.

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

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

8. Why is the bull fighter, Romero, the main attraction of all the bull fighters?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

1) Compare and contrast Jake Barnes and his friend Bill Gorton.

2) What are their personalities, behaviors, speech, attitudes, and physical appearances?

3) Are they true to life characters?

4) How do they relate to one another?

Essay Topic 3

1) Summarize the lifestyle of Jake Barnes and his friends.

2) What do they do for work?

3) How do they spend their spare time?

4) Explain why they are happy or dissatisfied with their lifestyles.

5) Cite examples from the story to support your answer.

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