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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Bill Gorton during his stay in Vienna?
(a) Bill wins a large sum of money betting on a prize-fight.
(b) Bill is drunk for four days in Vienna and doesn't remember much about the trip.
(c) Bill has a wonderful trip full of pleasant memories.
(d) Bill is mugged while drunk in Vienna.

2. When does Brett say she is going to marry Michael?
(a) As soon as he returns to Paris
(b) When he finds a better job
(c) When Michael's family gives them the money for the wedding
(d) As soon as they can get the divorce

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

4. 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.

5. What title does Robert Cohn achieve while attending Princeton?
(a) Heavyweight boxing champion
(b) Rhodes Scholar
(c) Princeton Review editor
(d) Middleweight boxing champion

Short Answer Questions

1. What advice do people offer Jake about his war injury that he resents so much?

2. Jake, Bill and their traveling companions in the train compartment talk about fishing trips. What comment does the American wife make about men?

3. What news does Frances Clyne reveal to Jake when she asks him to go with her to the Dome?

4. What does Robert Cohn think about Paris after returning from America?

5. Why does Krum have a difficult time going out to the Dingo or the Select?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is pernod and what type of reaction does a person have after drinking it?

2. What does Cohn say he in his letter to Jake from Hendaye?

3. Count Mippipopolous enjoys everything life has to offer. What explanation does he five for this?

4. Jake continues to feel miserable because he cannot be with Brett. He suggests that they live together. What is Brett's reply?

5. Robert Cohn gets his novel published in America. How does his personality change when he returns to Paris?

6. How does Jake describe Cohn's first encounter with Lady Brett Ashley?

7. During a dance at the dance club, Brett and Jake have a conversation about Mike. What do they talk about?

8. Jake feels sorry for Cohn because he is bored with his life, but why can't Jake help him?

9. What words of wisdom does Jake give to Robert Cohn about traveling and trying to escape from himself?

10. Bill and Jake meet Mike Campbell and Brett at the café, Select. What is Mike's condition?

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