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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By what nickname does Mr. Crich call Winifred in Chapter 21?
(a) Fishy.
(b) Kitty.
(c) Birdie.
(d) Froggy.

2. The following phrase from Chapter 29 is an example of what literary technique: “golden like honey of darkness”?
(a) Literary allusion.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Assonance.
(d) Simile.

3. What is the name of the young man with his pregnant fiancée that Birkin and Ursula give the chair to in the market place in Chapter 26?
(a) Fred.
(b) Paul.
(c) Peter.
(d) George.

4. What dance is described in Chapter 29 as “the Tyrolese dance of the clapping hands and tossing the partner in the air at the crisis”?
(a) The Polka.
(b) The Schuhplatteln.
(c) The Landler.
(d) The Waltz.

5. Where do Ursula and Birkin depart the train for their hotel in Chapter 29?
(a) Florence.
(b) Cologne.
(c) Basle.
(d) Hohenhausen.

6. Gerald says his black and green silk robe was a caftan where in Chapter 20?
(a) Bokhara.
(b) Lebanon.
(c) Israel.
(d) Peru.

7. What is the name of the patriarch of the Brangwen family?
(a) Paul Brangwen.
(b) Thomas Brangwen.
(c) Peter Brangwen.
(d) William Brangwen.

8. Where do Birkin and Ursula stop to spend the night in the car in Chapter 23?
(a) Willey Water.
(b) Shortlands.
(c) Sherwood Forest.
(d) Hohenhausen.

9. When Ursula tells Hermione that Birkin wants her to sink herself and not to have any being of her own, Hermione responds, “Then why doesn’t he marry” what?
(a) “An odalisk.”
(b) “A mime.”
(c) “An invalid.”
(d) “A concubine.”

10. What is the name of the estate belonging to the Crich family?
(a) Scrublands.
(b) Grasslands.
(c) Shortlands.
(d) Wetlands.

11. What is the title of Chapter 26?
(a) “Sketch-Book.”
(b) “Diver.”
(c) “A Chair.”
(d) “Fetish.”

12. The narrator states in Chapter 24, “When Gudrun heard that Mr. Crich was dead, she felt” what?
(a) “Rebuked.”
(b) “Saddened.”
(c) “Encouraged.”
(d) “Vindicated.”

13. What does Ursula’s father do during the argument after she announces she will get married tomorrow in Chapter 27?
(a) He gives her a kiss.
(b) He slaps her.
(c) He calls his mother.
(d) He storms out of the house.

14. With what friend does Hermione say she will stay with for the winter in Chapter 22?
(a) Diana.
(b) Palestra.
(c) Laura.
(d) Rosalind.

15. Of the inn that the two couples stay at in Chapter 29, Ursula thinks, “It had reminded Ursula again of home, of the Marsh, of her childhood, and of the journey to Brussels, and, strangely, of” whom?
(a) “William Brangwen.”
(b) “Lord Peter.”
(c) “Billy McFarlane.”
(d) “Anton Skrebensky.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Of England, Birkin says in Chapter 29, “It's a great actual unreality now, an aggregation into unreality. It might be real, if there were no” what?

2. What does Ursula bring to Birkin when she walks back to the car after storming off in Chapter 23?

3. After Gudrun announces to Loerke that she and Gerald aren’t married in Chapter 30, Gerald gets up and goes to discuss what writer and artist?

4. How many rings does Birkin give to Ursula when he asks her to take a drive with him in Chapter 23?

5. Imagining a future for Gerald, Gudrun thinks in Chapter 29, “He would be a Napoleon of peace, or” whom?

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