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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the nickname for Cold Comfort Farm?
(a) "The Prince's Whim."
(b) "The King's Lair.
(c) "The Farmer's Whim."
(d) "The King's Whim."

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

3. Why do the men go out in the rain?
(a) To plant while the seeds can be watered easily.
(b) To harvest swedes.
(c) To get their weekly bath.
(d) To take the sheep to the upper pasture.

4. In what style does Flora write her letters?
(a) In a style most appealing to each individual relative.
(b) No style.
(c) A formal, Victorian style.
(d) A baroque style.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Adam call Flora several times?

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

3. Who is Viper?

4. How far is Cold Comfort Farm from the sea?

5. Which reply most intrigues Flora?

(see the answer key)

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