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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Brett's formal title?
(a) Mon Cherie Brett
(b) Countess Ashley
(c) Lady Ashley
(d) Duchess Ashley

2. Where does Jake tell Cohn that he met Brett?
(a) They met while on a cruise to England.
(b) He first saw her in a café in Paris.
(c) He met her in a bar in America.
(d) She was a V.A.D. in a hospital he was in during the war.

3. What are the two ideas Robert Cohn gets from W. H. Hudson's novel, "The Purple Land"?
(a) South America will help him live life and he doesn't like Paris.
(b) Going to see bull-fighters will spice up his life and getting married is necessary for a man.
(c) Everyone needs many children and live through your children.
(d) Dating many women is the thing to do and writing a novel is fulfilling.

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

5. When Robert Cohn returns to Paris from America, he is a changed man. In what way does he change?
(a) He knows he is deeply in love with Frances.
(b) He is not so simple or so nice, and not as pleasant to have around.
(c) He wants to elope with Frances immediately.
(d) He withdraws into himself, rarely going out.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cohn tell Jake after Jake apologizes for telling him to go to hell?

2. As Jake lies in bed, what does he start thinking about that keeps him from sleeping?

3. After his miserable night crying over Brett, Jake walks down the Boulevard to the rue Soufflot for breakfast. What is his frame of mind?

4. Who does Brett's friend, Zizi, introduce her to when she and Jake go into the Café Select?

5. Why does Jake ask Georgette, the prostitute, to have dinner with him?

(see the answer key)

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