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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. Loerke says to Gudrun in Chapter 30, “Women and love – there is no greater” what?
(a) “Search.”
(b) “Tedium.”
(c) “Compromise.”
(d) “Realization.”

2. How many rings does Birkin give to Ursula when he asks her to take a drive with him in Chapter 23?
(a) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

3. Who answers the door when Birkin goes to the Brangwen home in Chapter 19?
(a) Rosalind.
(b) Laura.
(c) Sarah.
(d) Winifred.

4. What is the title of Chapter 27?
(a) “Rabbit.”
(b) “Flitting.”
(c) “Crème de Menthe.”
(d) “A Chair.”

5. Birkin tells Ursula in Chapter 26, “Now my rooms at the Mill are quite complete, I want them” where?
(a) “Beside the bay.”
(b) “On top of the mountain.”
(c) “Overlooking the river.”
(d) “At the bottom of the sea.”

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator states in Chapter 30, “When Ursula had gone, Gudrun felt her own existence had become” what?

2. What word does Gudrun use to mean “soldier of fortune” in Chapter 27?

3. Gudrun asks Gerald in Chapter 30, “Don't you think the understanding of a flea is more interesting than the understanding of a” what?

4. Who dies in the end of Women in Love?

5. What two words does the narrator say that from Ursula always drove her father mad in Chapter 27?

Short Essay Questions

1. What decision do Ursula and Birkin make after having tea at Southwell Minster in Chapter 23?

2. What is Ursula’s impression of the photo of artwork of Loerke’s shown to her in Chapter 29?

3. Why do Ursula and Birkin leave the inn at Hohenhausen in Chapter 29?

4. Why do Ursula and Birkin give away a chair in Chapter 26? To whom do they give the chair?

5. What do Hermione and Ursula discuss when they encounter one another at tea in Chapter 22?

6. What is significant about the relationships in the novel as presented through the conversation of Gerald and Birkin in Chapter 25?

7. What is significant about the encounter between Birkin and Ursula and the Halliday crowd in Chapter 28?

8. What is Gudrun’s response when Loerke asks where she will go next in Chapter 30?

9. What is related in the letter that Gudrun receives in the beginning of Chapter 21?

10. What are Ursula’s impressions as she leaves England for Continental Europe in Chapter 29? Where does she meet Gudrun?

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