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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what must Flora never ask Aunt Judith Starkadder?
(a) Why her uncle is kept in the cellar.
(b) Why she has never married.
(c) How much they make on the farm.
(d) The family mystery.

2. To what does Aunt Judith Starkadder refer in her letter?
(a) A problem with pigs in the house.
(b) A great wrong done to Flora's father.
(c) A need to know exactly who Flora is.
(d) A problem with bats in the belfry.

3. What does Judith do when Flora arrives at the farm?
(a) Hugs Flora.
(b) Tells her she will have to share a room with Miriam.
(c) Judith holds a lamp high in the darkness to observe her new tenant.
(d) Ignores Flora.

4. Of what type of novel is COLD COMFORT FARM a parody?
(a) Baroque Literature.
(b) Post-modernism.
(c) Modernism.
(d) The late eighteenth/early nineteenth century agricultural literature.

5. With whom is Flora going to stay temporarily?
(a) The family with whom she just ended her job as governess.
(b) Her uncle Astor.
(c) Mary Smiling, a friend.
(d) A boarding house for unwed mothers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are the Pioneer-Os?

2. Who is Viper?

3. Who does Adam threaten to kill?

4. What is the name of the farm in Howling, Sussex?

5. How does Adam try to get out of picking up Flora?

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