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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Jake when he suggests he and Cohn go to Strasbourg for the weekend to meet a girl he knows there?

2. Robert Cohn offers to pay Jake's expenses if he will go to what __place with him?

3. As Jake watches Brett walk up the street from his flat and get into the Count's limousine, what is he thinking?

4. Why does Jake give Harvey some money?

5. Jake and Cohn get into an argument during lunch. What is the argument about?

Short Essay Questions

1. Summarize how Jake amuses himself while Brett is in San Sebastian and Cohn is out of town?

2. Compare the different ways that Jake and Brett feel about being in love with each other.

3. How does Mike Campbell show his love for Brett?

4. Why don't Jake and Bill get to eat lunch until three-thirty in the afternoon when they are traveling on the train to Bayonne? What is Bill's reaction?

5. Why does Robert Cohn become obsessed about going to South America?

6. Describe Jake's frame of mind the morning after he is so distraught over Brett's leaving with Count Mippipopolous.

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Give three examples of when Jake comes to the aid of Brett when she asks for help.

2) Defend or criticize his reasons for helping her.

3) Do you think she is justified in asking for his help?

4) What is your opinion of Jake when he continually helps Brett?

Essay Topic 2

1) Discuss the value system of Count Mippipopolous.

2) How did he develop his set of values? Is he satisfied with his life or is he miserable?

3) Has he lived life to its potential?

Essay Topic 3

1) Analyze Robert Cohn's obsession with Lady Brett Ashley.

2) How do his feelings for Brett affect his fiancée, Frances?

3) What kind of an impact does his obsession have on Mike Campbell, Jake Barnes, and Pedro Romero?

4) Is his obsession with Brett ever resolved in the novel?

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