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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 does Bill tell Jake he should be the minute he gets up in the morning?

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

3. What do Bill and Cohn make a bet over while eating at the Hotel Montoya?

4. When Jake returns to his room after his fight with Cohn, Bill tells him that Cohn wants to see him. What does Cohn want from Jake?

5. What does the bull fight critic say about Pedro Romero's performance in the ring when Jake is having a drink with them?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Jake receives a telegram from Brett saying that they are staying over in San Sebastian overnight and will be late. How does Jake treat Cohn after he reads the telegram?

3. Compare the weather as Bill and Jake depart on the bus to Burguete and the weather upon their arrival at Burguete. What images are given to describe the weather?

4. How does Pedro Romero view the bulls that he fights?

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

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

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

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

10. What took place during the paseo in Pamplona?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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) 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.

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