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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Adam threaten to kill?
(a) A man who is interested in Elfine.
(b) Amo Starkadder if he doesn't stop preaching at him.
(c) Himself.
(d) The farmboy who knocks over the milk can in carelessness.

2. Why does Adam have to practice driving the cart six times?
(a) So the horses can get exercise.
(b) So he is prepared to drive it to the train station.
(c) So the cart wheels can be trued.
(d) So the cart can be re-fitted for staves.

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

4. What has always been on Cold Comfort Farm?
(a) Pigs.
(b) Little comfort.
(c) Cows.
(d) Starkadders.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Seth like to do in the evenings?

2. How does Adam describe Elfine?

3. How would one characterize Amos Starkadder's personality?

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

5. What does Flora decide to buy Adam next time she is in Howling?

(see the answer key)

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