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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is one of the relatives Flora contacts?
(a) Two old maid aunts in Brighton.
(b) A third cousin in Wales.
(c) A bachelor uncle in Scotland.
(d) A first cousin in Demming.

2. What does Flora want to do?
(a) Give relatives her monthly stipend in exchange for room and board.
(b) Get a job as a nanny overseas.
(c) Join a convent.
(d) Go to Hollywood and try to get in the silent films.

3. Where is the baby now?
(a) With Miriam's mother.
(b) Given up for adoption.
(c) It was stillborn.
(d) With Miriam.

4. What happens to Miriam?
(a) She cuts her arm rather badly.
(b) She goes into labor.
(c) She marries her second cousin.
(d) She falls off the hayloft.

5. Who are the Pioneer-Os?
(a) Mary's admirers.
(b) Some people who want to move "back to nature."
(c) Descendants of a group who first settled England when it was called Albion.
(d) The precursors to the inventors of Cherrios.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what type of novel is COLD COMFORT FARM a parody?

2. At first, what request from Flora does Miriam refuse?

3. What seems to be Flora's feelings towards Charles?

4. About what must Flora never ask Aunt Judith Starkadder?

5. Why do the men go out in the rain?

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