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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. In what city does "A Month in the Country" open?
2. What does Birkin do after Keach visits him for the first time?
3. Why is the grave Moon is looking for outside the graveyard?
4. Who does the money come from for the painting to be uncovered?
5. Who walks up while Birkin is on the ladder in the church for the first time?
Short Essay Questions
1. How do Moon and Birkin respond to each other when they first meet? What do they talk about?
2. Why is Birkin in the graveyard when Alice Keach comes to visit? What is he doing there?
3. Describe the wall monument that Birkin finds in the church.
4. What does Birkin think about after Keach leaves in Section 1? What decisions does he come to?
5. Who gave money to the church in a will? What stipulations do these funds carry?
6. Describe Kathy Ellerbeck according to Birkin's observations.
7. What reason does Birkin give for the observation the painting is hidden under paint for a long time? What are some of the reasons he considers the painting is covered so quickly?
8. What does Keach ask Birkin about the wall painting? How does Birkin respond?
9. Describe what Birkin sees when he first enters the church.
10. What is attached to the church? What does it contain?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay examining the relationships between Keach and Birkin and Moon and Birkin. How are these relationships similar? How are they different?
Essay Topic 2
The entire novel revolves around the work that Birkin is doing on the painting. Write an essay exploring the roles of the painting. Why is it so important? How does it affect the people that see it?
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay examining the influence of the war on the novel and on the individual characters.
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