Chapter 16

Question 0

Where does bad weather in Pamplona always come from?

Answer 0

From the sea over the mountains

Question 1

When it started raining during the fiesta what did the people do?

Answer 1

Set in the covered seats of the bull-ring watching the Basque and Navarrais dancers and singers, and the Val Carlos dancers

Question 2

Who does Montoya ask Jake if he knows?

Answer 2

The American ambassador

Question 3

Who did the American ambassador invite to the Grand Hotel?

Answer 3

Pedro Romero and Marcial Lalanda

Question 4

What was Marcial Lalanda doing when the American ambassador asked for him?

Answer 4

In San Sebastián with Marquez

Question 5

What is Jake’s advice to Montoya about Romero’s invitation to meet with the American ambassador?

Answer 5

To not to tell him

Question 6

Why does Montoya ask Jake about what he should do with Romero and the American ambassador?

Answer 6

Because Jake is American

Question 7

What is Montoya’s problem with foreigners and bull-fighters?

Answer 7

That they flatter bull-fighters and in one year they are through

Question 8

Who is down in Pamplona that collects bull-fighters?

Answer 8

An American woman

Question 9

What happens to old bullfighters?

Answer 9

They get fat or go crazy

Question 10

What was Mike buying for Bill at the fiesta when it was raining?

Answer 10

Shoe-shines for Bill

Question 11

How many shoe shines did Mike buy for Bill?

Answer 11

Twelve

Question 12

Who was sitting with Romero when Jake meets him on the day that it is raining?

Answer 12

A Critic

Question 13

What is the exact translation of corrida de toros ?

Answer 13

Bull-fight

Question 14

What does corrida mean in English?

Answer 14

The running of bulls

Question 15

What does corrida mean in French?

Answer 15

Course de tauraux

Question 16

Where had Romero first learned English?

Answer 16

In Gibraltar

Question 17

Where was Romero born?

Answer 17

In Ronda

Question 18

How long had Pedro Romero been at bull-fighting?

Answer 18

For three years

Question 19

Who was with Romero at the bull-fights?

Answer 19

His borther as a banderillero

Question 20

How many times did Jake tell Romero that he had seen him?

Answer 20

Three

Question 21

How many times has Jake seen Romero perform?

Answer 21

Once

Question 22

Where does Jake say he say Romero perform twice that he never actually saw Romero perform?

Answer 22

In Madrid twice

Question 23

How much does Romero think the next bulls weigh that he will be given on the last day weigh?

Answer 23

26 arrobas

Question 24

What does the critic say about the horns of the last day's bulls?

Answer 24

That they got bananas for horns

Question 25

What does Mike tell Jake to tell Romero when the meet in the Cafe and why?

Answer 25

That bulls have no balls cause he is drunk

Question 26

What does Romero saw Bill looks like?

Answer 26

Villalta

Question 27

What is the name of Romero's critic?

Answer 27

Rafael

Question 28

What pissed Montoya off at the cafe?

Answer 28

When he saw Romero with Jake, a woman with bare shoulders, a big glass of cognac and a room full of drunks

Question 29

What does Brett think Romero uses to get dressed?

Answer 29

A shoe-horn

Question 30

On the rainy day in the evening what was going on?

Answer 30

A military band was playing and the crowd was watching the fireworks specialist and his son try to send up fire balloons

Question 31

Who was the fireworks king?

Answer 31

Don Manuel Orquito

Question 32

On the rainy day of the fiesta who arrives from Biarritz?

Answer 32

Some English and Americans

Question 33

What pub did Mike lead Bill and Jake to on the rainy day?

Answer 33

The Bar Milano

Question 34

Why did the English come?

Answer 34

To see the last day of the quaint little Spanish fiesta

Question 35

What nationality is Mike?

Answer 35

Scotch

Question 36

What do Mike and Bill say they are going to do to the English?

Answer 36

Fiesta them

Question 37

What does Brett tell Cohn when they meet on the rainy day when he interrupts her and Jake?

Answer 37

To go to bed because he felt a little tight

Question 38

Where do Brett and Jake sit alone on the rainy day?

Answer 38

Outside on the stone wall of the fortifications

Question 39

Who does Brett say she's in love with?

Answer 39

The Romero boy

Question 40

What does Brett say she's lost?

Answer 40

Her self-respect

Question 41

What has Brett never felt like until she blows off Cohn, makes Mike upset and falls in love with Romero?

Answer 41

Like a bitch

Question 42

What does Jake do with Brett when they see Romero inside the cafe on the rainy day?

Answer 42

Makes her talk to him

Question 43

How much does Romero get payed apiece for the bulls?

Answer 43

A thousand duros

Question 44

Who are Romero's best friends?

Answer 44

The bulls

Question 45

In addition to Romero's pants Brett also want his?

Answer 45

His hat

Question 46

When Jake leaves the cafe alone to Brett and Romero what happens when he comes back twenty minutes later?

Answer 46

They have left because he set them up