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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 is the procedure to cross the border from France into Spain?
(a) The Spanish carabineers open one bag and look at the passport.
(b) The Spanish carabineers empty every bag and check the passport.
(c) The Spanish carabineers do not bother with the bags, but check the passport.
(d) The Spanish carabineers do a full body search on each traveler and check the passport.

2. Why did the bus have to pull over to the side of the road as it climbed into the hills?
(a) So everyone could get a good view of the countryside
(b) To give room to pilgrims passing on the road
(c) To make room for the wild goats on the hillside
(d) To give room to six mules pulling a heavily loaded freight wagon

3. How long does the fiesta last?
(a) Day and night for three days
(b) One day and night
(c) Only daytime celebrations for seven days
(d) Day and night for seven days

4. What gifts does Wilson-Harris give to Jake and Bill when they leave for Pamplona?
(a) He gives each of them an envelope with flies for fishing.
(b) He gives them each a bottle of wine.
(c) He gives them each a goatskin flask.
(d) He gives them each a new rod.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Brett's husband, Ashley, make her sleep?

2. What is Jake's philosophy that everything that is good has to be paid for?

3. 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?

4. Why does Cohn start a fight with Jake at the Cafe Suizo and knock him out?

5. What is Cohn's response when Bill suggests that he not look at the horses when the bull gores them?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Jake and Bill meet a Basque who lived in America forty years before. What parts of America had he visited and why did he return to Spain?

3. Relate why Montoya, the hotel owner in Pamplona, smiles at Jake and asks if Bill is an aficionado?

4. What are the feelings that Brett reveals to Jake about Pedro Romero?

5. What took place during the paseo in Pamplona?

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

7. Why is the bull fighter, Romero, the main attraction of all the bull fighters?

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

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

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

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