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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Jake's reply when Cohn asks him if he is worried about his life passing him by?
(a) Jake says that he is worried and depressed.
(b) Jake says that he is always worried about it.
(c) Jake says that he is through with worrying.
(d) Jake says that sometimes it bothers him.

2. Robert Cohn offers to pay Jake's expenses if he will go to what __place with him?
(a) South America
(b) Amsterdam
(c) Africa
(d) Spain

3. What is the financial status of Robert Cohn's parents who reside in New York?
(a) They are one of the richest Jewish, New York families.
(b) They are low income, struggling to survive.
(c) They are middle class working people.
(d) They are unemployed with a bleak future.

4. After five years of marriage, three children and spending close to fifty thousand dollars, what does Robert Cohn's rich wife do?
(a) She gives him a surprise anniversary party.
(b) She announces that she is pregnant again.
(c) She leaves him for a painter of miniatures.
(d) She tells him she would like to get a job.

5. What is Jake referring to when he says to Brett, "you like to add them up."?
(a) Brett enjoys it when more and more men become infatuated with her.
(b) Brett adds up the number of shoes she owns, buying a new pair every week.
(c) Brett likes to hang all her dresses in color coordinated order.
(d) Brett adds up the number of brandies she drinks when she goes out.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are the two friends Robert Cohn has during his three years in Europe?

2. Robert Cohn moves to California and uses the remainder of his fifty thousand dollars to back and become sole editor of what magazine?

3. After graduating from Princeton, Robert Cohn is bitter and self-conscious. What is one of the first things he does?

4. Why does Jake think of Cohn as Moses seeing the Promised Land for the first time while they are having a drink together at the dance?

5. What does Robert Cohn do while Jake works for two hours in the office?

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