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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 will the spectators do on the morning of the first day of the bull fights?
(a) They will stay inside, not looking at the bulls until the fight.
(b) They will run down the street behind the bulls.
(c) They will stay back behind the posts and let the bulls run past.
(d) They will run down the street with the bulls behind them.

2. What advice does Bill give Jake about dreaming after they wake up from their afternoon nap?
(a) Jake should dream because all the successful businessmen are dreamers.
(b) Dreaming eases the burdens of the day.
(c) Don't pay any attention to dreams. They don't have any meaning.
(d) Dreaming is for children.

3. What is the reason Brett tells Jake she is a goner?
(a) She finds out she is very sick.
(b) She thinks she drinks too much.
(c) She is still in love with Jake.
(d) She is hopelessly in love with Pedro Romero.

4. What is Cohn's reaction when Mike starts toward him from around the table to start a fight over Brett?
(a) Cohn waits proudly and firmly for Mike to assault him. He wants to show he will fight for Brett.
(b) Cohn backs up a few steps, then turns and runs.
(c) Cohn mumbles something and leaves the hotel.
(d) Cohn hides behind Jake, asking him to stop Mike.

5. What is morality, according to Jake?
(a) Being kind to one another
(b) Helping your neighbor
(c) Things that make you disgusted.
(d) What they teach in church.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

3. What is the cost for room and board at Jake's hotel in Burguete?

4. What meal is served to Jake and Bill their first night in the hotel?

5. What type of artwork is hanging from the walls in Jake's hotel?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Pedro Romero view the bulls that he fights?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Summarize the description Jake gives of Basque country.

10. 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?

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