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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. What does Fred do after his father's death?
(a) He throws himself into restoring the farm.
(b) He moves away from Marsh farm.
(c) He becomes abusive toward his mother.
(d) He becomes depressed and indifferent toward the farm.

2. What is young Tom Brangwen feeling behind his healthy, good looks, and well dressed appearance?
(a) Superiority
(b) A violent nature
(c) Cleverness
(d) A deep misery

3. Where does Anna send Ursula and Gudrun when the pettiness of the village children begins to bother them?
(a) To their grandmothers for home schooling
(b) To Cossethay College
(c) To grammar school in London
(d) To the grammar school in Nottingham

4. Where does the Brangwen family move when William gets his new position?
(a) A flat in Nottingham
(b) A villa in Beldover
(c) In the back of a large church
(d) In a collier's cottage

5. What does Ursula tell Anton in the letter she sends to him?
(a) She is pregnant and wants to marry him.
(b) She found a new lover.
(c) She misses him.
(d) She hopes he is happy in his new marriage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the decision Anton and Ursula make the morning after they make love in the sand under the moon?

2. What is it that makes the new house in Beldover feel like a home to the Brangwen children?

3. What is the thought about Easter and the Resurrection that Lawrence gives the reader?

4. What does Ursula wish as she swims with her swimming class mistress?

5. How does Christian life affect the Brangwens?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the Brangwens's Christian devotion and religious practices.

2. As Ursula continues to teach, how does her attitude toward education change?

3. Explain Ursula's plans for her future when she discovers that she is pregnant.

4. Describe Anna's thoughts about William's new job and their moving away from Cossethay.

5. How does Ursula's original joy about college change as she prepares for her final examination?

6. What is the reason that Ursula becomes defiant and mistrustful?

7. How do the Brangwen children adapt to their new home?

8. What does Anton Skrebensky believe is the responsibility of every person?

9. Summarize the effect Ursula has on Anton as they make love in the cornstacks.

10. What does Ursula decide Winifred should do after they are no longer lovers?

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