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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. Where is the primary setting for this novel?
2. What does Flora throw out of the cart when she climbs onto the cart?
3. Who is Mrs. Beetle?
4. How does Flora introduce herself to Seth?
5. What does Aunt Ada Doom do to the rest of the family?
Short Essay Questions
1. Briefly characterize each of the main Starkadders introduced in Chapter 3.
2. Give a brief description of Cold Comfort Farm.
3. If you were Miriam and had just delivered a baby, how would you feel about being asked to go wash curtains? Do you think this scene could have any other significance?
4. What does Flora learn about Seth and how does she plan to use this information?
5. What does Mrs. Beetle tell Flora about her grandchildren and what is Flora's reaction?
6. What self-imposed task seems next to impossible once Flora is confronted with the realities of Cold Comfort Farm?
7. How is the twig which Adam uses to wash dishes perhaps symbolic of Adam as a man?
8. What do you think the postcard Flora receives might mean?
9. How does Flora put one plan into action to help two of the Starkadder men--Reuben and Amos--to fill a role that is most suited to them?
10. How does Amos's preaching lend itself well to his becoming a traveling evangelist?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Chapter 3 gives an overview of Cold Comfort Farm and some of the main characters of the farm. Discuss the following:
1. What is a Gothic Novel? Give examples.
2. Though COLD COMFORT FARM is not fully a Gothic Novel, what elements in the novel are ones you might find in a Gothic novel? Give examples.
3. Do you think the Gothic elements in the novel add to the novel's purpose? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 2
In Chapter 11, we first see the idea of the Pygmalion effect (or the Rosenthal effect). Discuss the following?
1. Who is Pygmalion in Greek Legend?
2. What is the Pygmalion effect (or sometimes called the Rosenthal effect)? What does this psychological phenomenon have to do with the Pygmalion of Greek myth?
3. Discuss Seth and Elfine and how the Pygmalion effect is relevant to their lives.
Essay Topic 3
Aunt Ada Doom may be the least likeable character in the novel--at least until the very end of the book. Discuss the following:
1. Fully analyze Aunt Ada Doom's character. Is she a sympathetic character? Likable? Believable?
2. Do you believe Aunt Ada Doom actually "saw something nasty in the woodshed"? Why or why not?
3. Do you believe Aunt Ada Doom is actually crazy? Why or why not?
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