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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Flora decide to answer Seth?
(a) She slaps him.
(b) She gets indignant.
(c) She changes the subject.
(d) She says he is crude.

2. What does Flora ask of Judith?
(a) Flora asks to retire to her rooms and rest before meeting the rest of the family.
(b) Why it is so gloomy inside.
(c) A ride back to the train station the next day.
(d) Why Adam doesn't call her by her name.

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

4. Why does Flora want to fix up Elfine's appearance?
(a) To make Elfine attractive to Richard Hawk-Monitor.
(b) So Elfine will settle down a little.
(c) So Elfine will like Flora.
(d) To test out some of the fashion ideas about which Flora's been reading.

5. What does Flora subtly suggest to Reuben?
(a) That he should be courting Elfine.
(b) That he should be courting Miriam.
(c) That the dairy production would increase if they supplemented the grazing.
(d) That whoever runs the farm while Amos is gone will be the natural heir.

6. About what are they arguing?
(a) Breakfast being burned.
(b) The horse being lame.
(c) The cow losing a leg.
(d) Breakfast being late.

7. How does Seth enter the room?
(a) Limping.
(b) Stumbling.
(c) Swaggering.
(d) Quietly.

8. Why does Flora take an indirect train route to Howling?
(a) She made a mistake when she booked her route.
(b) There is no direct way to get to Howling.
(c) She wants to see the country around there.
(d) She wants time to back out if she changes her mind.

9. What has just happened to Flora Poste?
(a) She just married a man from Eton.
(b) Her parents have recently died.
(c) She has just gotten pregnant.
(d) She has just been accepted into Oxford.

10. What does Mary assume Flora will do?
(a) Get a job and her own flat.
(b) Go to college.
(c) Move to the United States.
(d) Get married.

11. In what era is the novel set?
(a) Late 1800s.
(b) 1950s.
(c) 1920s.
(d) 1930s.

12. What does Seth like to do in the evenings?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Meet a girl behind the haystack.
(c) Smoke his pipe on the porch.
(d) Go to the talkies.

13. Who offers to rescue Flora in his plane?
(a) Charles.
(b) Amo.
(c) Joseph.
(d) Reuben.

14. With whom is Flora going to stay temporarily?
(a) A boarding house for unwed mothers.
(b) The family with whom she just ended her job as governess.
(c) Her uncle Astor.
(d) Mary Smiling, a friend.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Amos think it will do Flora no good to attend the church?

2. Who wakes Flora in the morning with their arguing?

3. Upon what course of action does Flora decide?

4. What does Judith do when Flora arrives at the farm?

5. Upon what does Flora give Miriam a lecture?

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