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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much money per year do her parents leave her?
(a) Nothing.
(b) 500 pounds.
(c) 2000 pounds.
(d) 100 pounds.

2. Who are Graceless, Pointless, Feckless, and Aimless?
(a) The farm's three bulls.
(b) Three dogs.
(c) The best egg-laying chickens on the farm.
(d) The farm's cows.

3. What has just happened to Flora Poste?
(a) She has just gotten pregnant.
(b) She just married a man from Eton.
(c) Her parents have recently died.
(d) She has just been accepted into Oxford.

4. What has Flora been doing in the last three days?
(a) Going to Howling to start Amos on his new career.
(b) Writing to various charities about supporting Amos as an itinerant preacher.
(c) Walking with Mr. Mybug.
(d) Buying up stock in the farm.

5. Who is Mr. Mybug?
(a) Flora's father's best friend.
(b) Flora's former teacher.
(c) A man Flora encounters at the tea shop.
(d) A man in the Brethren congregation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the nickname for Cold Comfort Farm?

2. How does Flora feel about her progress in straightening out the farm?

3. What does Adam use to wash dishes?

4. What does Aunt Ada Doom do to the rest of the family?

5. Who is Mrs. Beetle?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the twig which Adam uses to wash dishes perhaps symbolic of Adam as a man?

2. What shows how strongly Flora thinks she is Cold Comfort Farm's guide to sanity?

3. What surprises Flora about Mrs. Beetle and how do you interpret Flora's reaction to Mrs. Beetle?

4. To which relatives does Flora write?

5. What is ironic about Amos calling Flora "a fornicator"?

6. What demonstrates Judith's rather bizarre attachment to her son, Seth?

7. What do you think is the significance of Adam calling Flora "Robert Poste's child" in their few exchanges?

8. How does Amos's preaching lend itself well to his becoming a traveling evangelist?

9. How does Flora's plan begin to blossom for getting Amos Starkadder "out of the picture"?

10. Describe Flora's conversation with Reuben about Cold Comfort Farm; do you think Flora is sincere?

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