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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. What does Mr. Mybug wish to prove?

2. What does Flora offer Miriam to wash the curtains?

3. Who is Viper?

4. What does Adam use to wash dishes?

5. What does Mary assume Flora will do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is a probable foreshadowing in this chapter and why do you think so?

2. Briefly characterize each of the main Starkadders introduced in Chapter 3.

3. How does Miriam react to Flora's information about birth control and how is that reaction a reversal of roles between her and her mother?

4. Give a very brief synopsis of COLD COMFORT FARM.

5. Describe what Flora learns at her first breakfast at Cold Comfort Farm. What do you think might pique Flora's interest in what she learns?

6. What does Flora learn about Seth and how does she plan to use this information?

7. What does Aunt Ada Doom keep talking about and what's your "take" on this?

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

9. What at the opening to chapter 5 demonstrates Flora is no "farm gal"?

10. How does Adam try to get out of picking up Flora and what is the outcome?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Upon Flora's arrival at Cold Comfort Farm, she almost immediately takes on the task of "tidying up" some of her Starkadder relatives. Choose one of the following:

1. Discuss how Flora "fixes" Seth and Reuben. Do you think the two men will be happier with the changes in their lives? Why or why not? Would you have chosen the same solutions? Why or why not?

2. Discuss how Flora "fixes" Amos and Judith. Do you think the two will be happier with the changes in their lives? Why or why not? Would you have chosen the same solutions? Why or why not?

3. Discuss how Flora "fixes" Elfine and Aunt Ada Doom. Do you think the two women will be happier with the changes in their lives? Why or why not? Would you have chosen the same solutions? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

In Chapter 6, Flora meets Miriam, whose character parodies works by writers such as D.H. Lawrence who expounded on sexuality in nature. Discuss the following:

1. What is the naturalism view on sexuality in nature? Describe how Miriam's character exhibits this concept.

2. How else does this theme manifest in the book? Give examples.

3. Do you think Miriam's nature is transformed or will it stay the same in her marriage to Urk? Why or why not?

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