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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. How do the spectators react when they feel they are cheated by Belmonte's bull fight?
(a) Sit down in silence
(b) Yell insults and throw food
(c) Refuse to applaud
(d) Turn their backs on him

2. Bill and Jake sit down to eat lunch after fishing and have an amusing conversation about the different men they went to college with. Which men do they mention?
(a) Harris, Henry Ford, Roosevelt, and Wheeler
(b) Henry James, Abraham Lincoln, Grant, and Keats
(c) Bishop Manning, Henry James, Fitzgerald, and Roosevelt
(d) Bryan, Mencken, Frankie Fritsch, Bishop Manning, and Wayne Wheeler

3. Why does Cohn start a fight with Jake at the Cafe Suizo and knock him out?
(a) Jake refuses to tell him where Brett is.
(b) Jake tells Cohn that he loves Brett.
(c) Jake tells Cohn to find other friends.
(d) Cohn is angry that Jake takes Mike's side against him.

4. 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?
(a) The fiesta
(b) The paseo
(c) The sombra
(d) The aficio

5. How is Robert Cohn feeling while he and Jake wait for Brett's train to arrive?
(a) He is feverish and shaky.
(b) He is extremely nervous and eager.
(c) He is relaxed and pleasant.
(d) He is nonchalant.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did a Basque offer to Jake and Bill as they waited in the heat for the bus to leave for Burguete?

3. What part of the countryside did Jake's bus travel after stopping at the posada to drop off packages?

4. How do Jake and Bill stay warm after they finish their evening meal?

5. How does dinner with Brett, Mike, Cohn, and Bill remind Jake of dinners during the war?

Short Essay Questions

1. Compare the weather as Bill and Jake depart on the bus to Burguete and the weather upon their arrival at Burguete. What images are given to describe the weather?

2. Is Mike Campbell justified in comparing Robert Cohen to one of the steers?

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

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

5. 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?

6. Summarize the description Jake gives of Basque country.

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

8. 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?

9. Jake receives a telegram from Brett saying that they are staying over in San Sebastian overnight and will be late. How does Jake treat Cohn after he reads the telegram?

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

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