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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Charles reiterate to Flora?
(a) The best way to confront a mad bull.
(b) The convoluted route.
(c) His offer to rescue her if need be.
(d) How to build fire in a pot-bellied stove.

2. What literary device occurs at the opening to this chapter?
(a) A metaphor.
(b) The narrative shifts point of view.
(c) A simile.
(d) An alliterative string.

3. Who are Graceless, Pointless, Feckless, and Aimless?
(a) The best egg-laying chickens on the farm.
(b) The farm's three bulls.
(c) The farm's cows.
(d) Three dogs.

4. Upon what does Flora give Miriam a lecture?
(a) Sex out of wedlock.
(b) Consorting with the owners of the farm.
(c) Breastfeeding.
(d) How to avoid becoming pregnant.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is waiting at the train station when Mary and Flora arrive?

2. Who is Mrs. Beetle?

3. What does Miriam think of the idea of birth control?

4. About what are they arguing?

5. Who is Viper?

(see the answer key)

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