Cold Comfort Farm Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Stella Gibbons
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 137 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Cold Comfort Farm Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Flora go?
(a) To the general store.
(b) To the attic.
(c) To Miriam's hut.
(d) To the train station.

2. What does Flora offer to do for Elfine?
(a) Help her elope with Richard in a couple days.
(b) Help her with washing the curtains.
(c) Help her get to America.
(d) Help her get to Richard's 21st birthday party.

3. Who does Flora deduce is the father of Miriam's children?
(a) Reuben.
(b) Richard.
(c) Seth.
(d) Amos.

4. Who does Elfine think Aunt Ada Doom plans for Flora to marry?
(a) Urk.
(b) Seth.
(c) Richard.
(d) Reuben.

5. Who is Richard Hawk-Monitor?
(a) A man Adam thinks Elfine is seeing.
(b) A good friend of Flora.
(c) The King's forest warden.
(d) The milkmaid's husband.

6. Where is the primary setting for this novel?
(a) Binghampton, England.
(b) Sussex, France.
(c) Sussex, England.
(d) Surrey, Italy.

7. How does Adam try to get out of picking up Flora?
(a) By pretending the horse is lame.
(b) By taking the sheep to the upper meadow.
(c) By feigning an attack.
(d) By oversleeping.

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

9. Upon what course of action does Flora decide?
(a) That she will have to eat more meals with the Starkadders to get to know them better if her plans are to succeed.
(b) That she will leave for London in two weeks.
(c) That she will ask them to hire another servant with her money.
(d) That she will move in to Howling.

10. What does Adam call Flora several times?
(a) Robert Poste's child.
(b) Lady Poste.
(c) Miss Lady Poste.
(d) Young miss.

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

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

13. Which reply most intrigues Flora?
(a) The one from Wales.
(b) The one from Scotland.
(c) The one from Brighton.
(d) The one from Sussex.

14. What does Mary believe about Flora's proposed move to the farm in Sussex?
(a) That Flora is not thinking straight because of her recent loss.
(b) That a farm is no place for someone who wants to get married.
(c) That the family sounds like they are all insane.
(d) That Flora will return soon to London.

15. About what must Flora never ask Aunt Judith Starkadder?
(a) Why her uncle is kept in the cellar.
(b) The family mystery.
(c) How much they make on the farm.
(d) Why she has never married.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Charles reiterate to Flora?

2. Why does Flora have trouble getting to know Amos better?

3. Who is one of the relatives Flora contacts?

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

5. What does Adam tell Flora about Cold Comfort Farm?

(see the answer keys)

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