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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Flora wanting to avoid with Mr. Mybug?
(a) Compromising.
(b) A date.
(c) Debate.
(d) Another invitation.

2. When did Miriam have her baby?
(a) Today.
(b) A month ago.
(c) A week ago.
(d) The day before.

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

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 does Amos accuse Flora?
(a) Condemnation to hell.
(b) Deceit.
(c) Fornication.
(d) Thievery.

6. What month is it in Chapter 10?
(a) March.
(b) July.
(c) September.
(d) December.

7. By what name does Flora know old Mrs. Starkadder?
(a) Aunt Ada Doom.
(b) Aunt Doomie Starkadder.
(c) Aunt Stark Doom.
(d) Auntie Starkie.

8. About what does Flora talk to Reuben?
(a) Getting a ride into Howling.
(b) Plowing the back 40.
(c) Her idea of Amos preaching to the masses.
(d) Buying some more cows.

9. What is Mr. Mybug's real name?
(a) Myberger.
(b) Meyerburg.
(c) Bugmeyer.
(d) Bergermeyer.

10. What excuse does Aunt Ada Doom use to stay in her room?
(a) She has bad arthritis.
(b) The rest of the house is too drafty.
(c) She saw something nasty in the woodshed as a little girl.
(d) She is the oldest of everyone there.

11. Why does Amos think it will do Flora no good to attend the church?
(a) Because she is Anglican.
(b) Because she was not baptized as a baby.
(c) Because she is Catholic.
(d) Because he thinks she is damned no matter what.

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

13. What is the name of the farm in Howling, Sussex?
(a) Heavenly Comfort Farm.
(b) Coldest Farm of Comfort.
(c) Cold Comfort Farm.
(d) Cold Sassy Farm.

14. Who is Mr. Mybug?
(a) A man Flora encounters at the tea shop.
(b) A man in the Brethren congregation.
(c) Flora's father's best friend.
(d) Flora's former teacher.

15. What does Aunt Ada Doom do to the rest of the family?
(a) Makes fun of them.
(b) Controls them.
(c) Makes them wait on her.
(d) Advices them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What about Mrs. Beetle's plan does Flora approve?

2. Who is Adam supposed to meet at the train station?

3. Where is the primary setting for this novel?

4. Who is Viper?

5. How do Flora and Adam drive back to Cold Comfort?

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