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Chapter One Flashcards

0
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Did Cohn like boxing?

A

No

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

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Middleweight

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Why did Cohn box?

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

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Where was the only place that Cohn ever fought?

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In the gym

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4
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What did Spider Kelly tell all his young men to box like?

A

Like featherweights

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5
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Who was Spider Kelly’s star pupil?

A

Cohn

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What happened the first time Cohn boxed?

A

Spider Kelly overmatched him and Cohn got his nose permanently flattened

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7
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What kind of people does Jake mistrust?

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All frank and simple people

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

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

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

A

His father

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

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His mother

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11
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Where did Cohn prep for Princeton?

A

At a military prep school

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12
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What did Cohn play while at his military prep school?

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A very good end on the football team

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What made Cohn bitter?

A

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

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14
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Who did Cohn marry?

A

The first girl who was nice to him

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15
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How long was Cohn married?

A

5 years

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16
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How many kids did Cohn have?

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Three

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17
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How much money did his father leave him?

A

$50,000

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18
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Who did the balance of Cohn’s father’s estate go to?

A

His mother

19
Q

Who did Cohn’s wife leave him for?

A

A miniature painter

20
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Where did Cohn go after the divorce?

A

The Coast, California

21
Q

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

A

Literary people

22
Q

What review did Cohn back while in California?

A

The Arts

23
Q

Where did Cohn’s review publish?

A

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

24
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What was Cohn’s position in the review at the start of its publication?

A

As a member of the advisory board on the editorial board

25
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What was Cohn’s position in his review by the time it finished publication?

A

As the sole editor

26
Q

Why did Cohn give up his magazine?

A

Because it became too expensive

27
Q

What happened to Cohn with women while with the magazine?

A

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

28
Q

Why did Cohn’s lady become disgusted with Cohn?

A

Because she realized that the magazine was not going to rise

29
Q

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

A

They went to Europe where the lady had been educated

30
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How long did Cohn and his lady stay in Europe?

A

Three years

31
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How did Cohn and his lady spend their three years in Europe?

A

Two in Paris and one in travel

32
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Who were Cohn’s two friends?

A

Braddocks and Jake

33
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What kind of friend was Braddocks to Cohn?

A

He was his literary friend

34
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What kind of friend was Cohn to Jake?

A

He was his tennis friend

35
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What was Cohn’s lady’s name?

A

Frances Clyne

36
Q

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

A

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

37
Q

What was Cohn’s allowance from his mother?

A

$300 a month

38
Q

Why was Cohn unhappy in Europe?

A

Because he would rather have been in America

39
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What did Cohn discover while in Europe?

A

Writing

40
Q

How was Cohn’s novel?

A

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

41
Q

What did Cohn do while in Europe?

A

He read books, played bridge, tennis and boxed

42
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Where did Jake and Cohn and his lady dine at when Jake came aware of Frances’s attitude towards Cohn?

A

At I’Avenue and then Cafe Versailles

43
Q

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

A

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

44
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Why did Cohn get Jake kicked under the table?

A

Because Jake mentioned a girl he knew in Strasburg?

45
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Where did Jake suggest that he and Cohn go?

A

To Senlis where they could stay at the Grand Cerg

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