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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the condition of the countryside in the Basque country?
(a) Overdeveloped land with many roads and vehicles
(b) Dry, infertile land with small thatched huts scattered throughout
(c) The land is very rich and green with houses in good, clean condition.
(d) Barren, forgettable countryside with small, dirty villages

2. What is one of the methods smugglers use to cross from France into Spain?
(a) They wade across the stream.
(b) They wait for nightfall and sneak through the Spanish frontier.
(c) They take boats down the stream.
(d) They try to convince other travelers to hide them in their vehicles.

3. What is the description Jake gives of the town of Bayonne?
(a) A smelly Spanish town with a rancid river running through it
(b) A nice Spanish town, very clean, on a large river
(c) A dirty Spanish town, cluttered with litter
(d) A gloomy Spanish town with dark, unkempt streets

4. When Jake is about to leave the dance-club, what does he give the patronne for Georgette?
(a) A bottle of wine
(b) His address
(c) A brandy and soda
(d) Fifty francs

5. When Jake and Bill try to get tickets for the first lunch service on the train, what does the conductor tell them?
(a) He gives them tickets and tells them to enjoy the ride.
(b) They are all reserved but he will find them a spot for ten francs.
(c) They are all reserved. There is nothing available until the fifth at three-thirty.
(d) They can have tickets to the second serving.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jake feel about Robert Cohn after Brett does not show up on the train?

2. What did Frances say that Robert did to his secretary at Frances' request?

3. After five years of marriage, three children and spending close to fifty thousand dollars, what does Robert Cohn's rich wife do?

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. Robert Cohn offers to pay Jake's expenses if he will go to what __place with him?

(see the answer key)

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