Chapter One

Question 0

Did Cohn like boxing?

Answer 0

No

Question 1

Cohn was once the champion boxer at Princeton for what category?

Answer 1

Middleweight

Question 2

Why did Cohn box?

Answer 2

To counteract the feeling and insecurity and shyness he felt as being a Jew at Princeton

Question 3

Where was the only place that Cohn ever fought?

Answer 3

In the gym

Question 4

What did Spider Kelly tell all his young men to box like?

Answer 4

Like featherweights

Question 5

Who was Spider Kelly’s star pupil?

Answer 5

Cohn

Question 6

What happened the first time Cohn boxed?

Answer 6

Spider Kelly overmatched him and Cohn got his nose permanently flattened

Question 7

What kind of people does Jake mistrust?

Answer 7

All frank and simple people

Question 8

What does Jake believer could be the real reasons that Cohn’s nose is actually flattened?

Answer 8

He saw something, his mother saw something, a horse stepped on his face, or his mother had been frightened

Question 9

Who granted Cohn access to one of the richest Jewish communities in New York?

Answer 9

His father

Question 10

Who granted Cohn access to one of the oldest families in New York?

Answer 10

His mother

Question 11

Where did Cohn prep for Princeton?

Answer 11

At a military prep school

Question 12

What did Cohn play while at his military prep school?

Answer 12

A very good end on the football team

Question 13

What made Cohn bitter?

Answer 13

The fact that he was a nice,shy, friendly boy

Question 14

Who did Cohn marry?

Answer 14

The first girl who was nice to him

Question 15

How long was Cohn married?

Answer 15

5 years

Question 16

How many kids did Cohn have?

Answer 16

Three

Question 17

How much money did his father leave him?

Answer 17

$50,000

Question 18

Who did the balance of Cohn’s father’s estate go to?

Answer 18

His mother

Question 19

Who did Cohn’s wife leave him for?

Answer 19

A miniature painter

Question 20

Where did Cohn go after the divorce?

Answer 20

The Coast, California

Question 21

What kind of people did Cohn fall in amongst in California?

Answer 21

Literary people

Question 22

What review did Cohn back while in California?

Answer 22

The Arts

Question 23

Where did Cohn’s review publish?

Answer 23

It started in Carmel, California and finished in Provincetown, Massachusetts

Question 24

What was Cohn's position in the review at the start of its publication?

Answer 24

As a member of the advisory board on the editorial board

Question 25

What was Cohn's position in his review by the time it finished publication?

Answer 25

As the sole editor

Question 26

Why did Cohn give up his magazine?

Answer 26

Because it became too expensive

Question 27

What happened to Cohn with women while with the magazine?

Answer 27

He was taken in hand b a woman who hoped to rise with the magazine

Question 28

Why did Cohn's lady become disgusted with Cohn?

Answer 28

Because she realized that the magazine was not going to rise

Question 29

Where did Cohn and his lady go after America and why?

Answer 29

They went to Europe where the lady had been educated

Question 30

How long did Cohn and his lady stay in Europe?

Answer 30

Three years

Question 31

How did Cohn and his lady spend their three years in Europe?

Answer 31

Two in Paris and one in travel

Question 32

Who were Cohn's two friends?

Answer 32

Braddocks and Jake

Question 33

What kind of friend was Braddocks to Cohn?

Answer 33

He was his literary friend

Question 34

What kind of friend was Cohn to Jake?

Answer 34

He was his tennis friend

Question 35

What was Cohn's lady's name?

Answer 35

Frances Clyne

Question 36

How did Frances's attitude change towards Cohn while in Europe?

Answer 36

She found that her looks were going during the second year and she went from careless possession and exploitation to absolute determination that Cohn should marry her

Question 37

What was Cohn's allowance from his mother?

Answer 37

$300 a month

Question 38

Why was Cohn unhappy in Europe?

Answer 38

Because he would rather have been in America

Question 39

What did Cohn discover while in Europe?

Answer 39

Writing

Question 40

How was Cohn's novel?

Answer 40

It wasn't a bad novel according to the critics but it was actually very good

Question 41

What did Cohn do while in Europe?

Answer 41

He read books, played bridge, tennis and boxed

Question 42

Where did Jake and Cohn and his lady dine at when Jake came aware of Frances's attitude towards Cohn?

Answer 42

At I'Avenue and then Cafe Versailles

Question 43

Where did Cohn suggest that he and Jake go for a vacation?

Answer 43

To Strasburg and walk up to Saint Odile or somewhere else in the Alsace

Question 44

Why did Cohn get Jake kicked under the table?

Answer 44

Because Jake mentioned a girl he knew in Strasburg?

Question 45

Where did Jake suggest that he and Cohn go?

Answer 45

To Senlis where they could stay at the Grand Cerg