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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 is an ominous sign when Seth, Flora and Elfine return to Cold Comfort Farm?

2. Why is Reuben hard at work?

3. What day is it at the opening to this chapter?

4. Who leaves the group?

5. What happens to Elfine's hair?

Short Essay Questions

1. What might be the symbolizes of the lights being on when Seth, Elfine and Flora return to Cold Comfort Farm from the ball?

2. What does Harkaway tell Flora and what is her response?

3. Do you think Aunt Ada Doom is "doomed" to misery?

4. What does Flora give Elfine to help her and do you think it will?

5. How is Aunt Ada Doom's manipulative efforts symbolic of the change that is occurring to the Starkadder clan?

6. How do you think Flora is feeling by the end of the wedding?

7. What convinces Flora that there is more to Seth than meets the eye and what does it seem she will do about him?

8. What do you think it says about Dick that he has decided to ask Elfine to marry him after she has made herself gorgeous?

9. How do you think the situation with Flora and the bull is symbolic of Flora with the lives of the Starkadders?

10. What is the significance of the sukebind?

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

Some readers might argue that Flora is an empathetic character despite her meddling ways. Discuss the following:

1. What do you think it means to be an empathetic character? Give examples from other books/stories you have read.

2. Do you think Flora is an empathetic character? Why or why not? Give examples to support your stance.

3. If Flora is an empathetic character, does this make her meddling more honorable or justifiable? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

COLD COMFORT FARM is a parody of late eighteenth/early nineteenth century naturalism literature, such as novels by D.H. Lawrence and Thomas Hardy. Discuss the following:

1. What is the definition of naturalism literature? Give several examples.

2. How does this novel parody naturalism literature?

3. Do you think this is an effective parody? Why or why not?

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