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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. When Jake returns to his room after his fight with Cohn, Bill tells him that Cohn wants to see him. What does Cohn want from Jake?
(a) An apology
(b) To continue the fight
(c) The whereabouts of Brett
(d) Forgiveness

2. Why are Jake and Bill annoyed by the telegram from Cohn that says he will be arriving Thursday?
(a) The overly long message annoys them.
(b) The tone of the message annoys them.
(c) The short, abrupt message annoys them.
(d) The lateness of the message annoys them.

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

4. Bill mentions that Romero's face looks badly bruised. What is Brett's reply?
(a) That it isn't as bad as it looks.
(b) That Romero is badly hurt and should be in bed
(c) That Romero is hurt, but he will be fine
(d) That Cohn is to blame.

5. Why were workmen putting up gate-posts that shut off the side streets in Pamplona?
(a) To prevent the bulls from running down the side streets when they were released into the street the next morning.
(b) So the women could hang flowers from the posts for the fiesta
(c) For the fiesta parade the next day
(d) To make a place for tying the spectator's horses during the bull fight

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the weather like when Jake and Bill arrive in Burguete?

3. What does Bill tell Jake he should be the minute he gets up in the morning?

4. Where does Jake go after he leaves the archivist's office?

5. What is the term used for the hour after dinner when the pretty girls, officers from the garrison, and the fashionable people walk in the square of Pamplona and the cafes fill up?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Jake, Bill and the Basques do to pass the time on the bus to Burguete?

2. What type of personal conversations do Bill and Jake get into while they are in the countryside fishing?

3. How do the pictures on the walls of Jake's and Bill's hotel in Burguete add to the coldness of the room?

4. Cohn wants to see Jake after knocking him unconscious. Does Jake go to see Cohn or does he decide against it? Explain.

5. On the day the bull fights are to take place, Cohn tells Bill and Jake that he hopes he won't be bored at the bull fight. What is Bill's reaction to Cohn's comment?

6. Explain how the fist fight between Robert Cohn and Jake Barnes gets started?

7. What does Cohn decide to do now that Brett is staying over in San Sebastian and what are Jake's feelings about it?

8. Bill calls Jake an expatriate. What does he mean by this?

9. What does Cohn do when he finds Pedro Romero with Brett?

10. How did Pedro Romero perform in the bull ring after getting a severe beating from Robert Cohn?

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