Chapter 15

Question 0

Beside being a bull fighting festival what is San Fermin also?

Answer 0

A religious festival

Question 1

When did the fiesta “explode”?

Answer 1

At noon, Sunday, the 6th of July

Question 2

What did Jake compare the cafe on the day of the fiesta to?

Answer 2

A battleship stripped for action

Question 3

What is Cohn drinking the morning of the first day of the fiesta in the Cafe?

Answer 3

Sherry

Question 4

The rocket thatt announces the start of the fiesta bursts high above what building?

Answer 4

The Theatre Gayarre

Question 5

How many rockets were fired to announce the start of the festival?

Answer 5

two

Question 6

What music were the pipers, the fifers and the drummers playing?

Answer 6

Riau-Riau

Question 7

Who was the village idiot according to Bill?

Answer 7

The man playing the red-pipe

Question 8

The dancers that came down the street at the start of the festival were all?

Answer 8

Male

Question 9

What was painted on the banner carried by the dancers?

Answer 9

Hurray for Wine! Hurray for the Foreigners

Question 10

Who are the foreigners?

Answer 10

The companions

Question 11

How long did the fiesta keep on oing?

Answer 11

Seven days day and night

Question 12

What cigar-store items were included in the parade?

Answer 12

Cigar-store Indians, thirty feet high, Moors, a King and Queen

Question 13

What was Brett missing when the Festival of San Fermin started?

Answer 13

Her hat

Question 14

What did the dancers who surrounded Brett wear around their necks?

Answer 14

Big, white, wreaths of garlic

Question 15

Where did the dancers take Brett and the companions?

Answer 15

Into a wine-shop

Question 16

What were the dancers at the festival teaching Brett to do in the wine shop?

Answer 16

Teaching her to drink out of the wine-skins

Question 17

What had the dancers hung around Brett’s neck in the wine-shop?

Answer 17

A wreath of garlics around her neck

Question 18

Where does Jake go while the companions are with the dancers in the wine shop?

Answer 18

A shop that made leather wine bottles

Question 19

What does Jake pay for his wine-skins at the fiesta?

Answer 19

Eight pesetas for two

Question 20

How much did each wineskin that Jake bought at the fiesta hold?

Answer 20

Five litres and two litres

Question 21

How much did it cost to fill the two wine-skins?

Answer 21

3 pesetas and 60 centimos

Question 22

What happened to Cohn during the dancing?

Answer 22

He passed out on Anis del Mono

Question 23

What do prices do when fiesta starts?

Answer 23

They double

Question 24

What happened during the running of the bulls?

Answer 24

One man fell, rolled into the gutter and lay quiet

Question 25

How many people in the crowd did the bull toss?

Answer 25

Six or eight people

Question 26

What was the seating arrangement for the first day?

Answer 26

Three are ring-side and three were half way up the stands

Question 27

Where did the companions sit on the first day?

Answer 27

Mike sat up high as did Brett and of course Cohn, Bill and Jake sit down on the front row

Question 28

What is Cohn afraid of at the first day of bullfighting?

Answer 28

That he will be bored

Question 29

What is a picador?

Answer 29

The guy with a spear who tries to stop the bull

Question 30

Who introduces the companions to Pedro Romero?

Answer 30

Montoya

Question 31

In what room is Pedro Romero?

Answer 31

Room number eight

Question 32

Does Pedro Romero know English?

Answer 32

No but he speaks English

Question 33

Who is the best-looking boy that Jake has ever seen?

Answer 33

Pedro Romero (GAY)

Question 34

What language do Pedro's companions think the companions know?

Answer 34

French

Question 35

What is Spanish for good luck?

Answer 35

Mucha suerta

Question 36

What does Montoya say Pedro looks like?

Answer 36

A torero

Question 37

What insult does Bill call Cohn during the first day of bull fighting?

Answer 37

A kike

Question 38

What article of Romero's clothing is Brett interested in?

Answer 38

His green trousers

Question 39

Mike calls Brett an extraordinary?

Answer 39

Wench

Question 40

What bothered Cohn on the first day of the bullfights?

Answer 40

The horse

Question 41

How many bull-fighters were there on the second day?

Answer 41

Three; Romero and two others

Question 42

What was the seating arrangement of the companions on the second day of the bull-fights?

Answer 42

Brett sat between Mike and Jake while Bill and Cohn went up in the middle

Question 43

What did Romero's style of bull-fighting give off?

Answer 43

It gave off real emotion

Question 44

Whose death had caused all the bull-fighters to develop a technic that simulated the appearance of danger?

Answer 44

The death of Joselito

Question 45

Why did Pedro Romero not fight on the third day?

Answer 45

Because it was Miura bulls and thus a very bull-fight