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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Adam describe Elfine?
(a) As practical and the mainstay of the farm.
(b) As bullheaded.
(c) As seventeen and wild, often gone for days at a time to wander the hills.
(d) As a will-o-the-wisp.

2. What surprises Flora about Mrs. Beetle?
(a) Her education.
(b) Her accent.
(c) Her rudeness.
(d) Her civility.

3. Who is Viper?
(a) Adam's nickname.
(b) A vicious neighbor dog.
(c) The bull.
(d) The horse who pulls the cart.

4. How far is Cold Comfort Farm from the sea?
(a) 2 miles.
(b) 100 kilometers.
(c) 100 miles.
(d) 50 kilometers.

5. What does Flora decline?
(a) Sweet potato pie.
(b) A cousinly kiss from Adam.
(c) Soup.
(d) Porridge.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the predominant building materials of the farm?

2. What does Mary assume Flora will do?

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

4. Who admits giving his daughter chicken feathers?

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

(see the answer key)

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