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

2. Bill is so annoyed about eating lunch at quarter past four that he stops a priest who is coming back from lunch. What comment does he make to the priest?
(a) He inquires about the quality of the food and if there is any left.
(b) He asks if the next time, the Catholics can be the last to be served.
(c) He wants to know when the Protestants get to eat and it makes him want to join the Klan.
(d) He asks if all the Catholics enjoyed making everyone else on the train wait for lunch.

3. What do Bill and Cohn make a bet over while eating at the Hotel Montoya?
(a) Cohn bets Bill one hundred pesetas that Brett and Mike will show up the next day.
(b) Cohn bets Bill that he will not be able to finish all the courses of the Spanish meal.
(c) Cohn bets Bill that he will not last to the end of the brutal bull fights.
(d) Bill bets Cohn fifty pesetas that Brett and Mike arrive that evening. Cohen says that they won't come.

4. While on the bus, Bill and Jake have a conversation with an old man who says that he lived in America forty years ago. Why did he return to Spain?
(a) He missed his homeland.
(b) To get married
(c) To attend his mother's funeral
(d) He was broke.

5. How did Robert Cohn spend his time while in Europe with Frances?
(a) He takes up painting and sculpture.
(b) He starts a new arts magazine, and wines and dines Frances.
(c) He goes back to school and studies law.
(d) He writes a novel, reads books, plays bridge, plays tennis and boxes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What gifts does Wilson-Harris give to Jake and Bill when they leave for Pamplona?

2. What is the financial status of Robert Cohn's parents who reside in New York?

3. What did it mean when the Basque said "Arriba" to Bill and Jake?

4. What is Brett's response when the Count asks her to go to Biarritz, Cannes, or Monte Carlo?

5. Jake is awakened at 4:30 in the morning by a loud voice downstairs arguing with the concierge. Who comes looking for him at his flat?

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