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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Flora notice about Cold Comfort Farm?
(a) It no longer looks gloomy and depressing.
(b) It is immaculate.
(c) It still seems gloomy and depressing.
(d) It is getting more and more residents.

2. What does not calm Flora?
(a) Breathing slowly.
(b) Having a glass of sherry.
(c) Seeing how beautiful Elfine looks.
(d) Reading Pensees.

3. What do Richard and Elfine announce at the end of the evening?
(a) Their engagement.
(b) That Elfine is going to be a lady-in-waiting to the queen.
(c) That Richard and Elfine married two weeks earlier.
(d) That Elfine is expecting.

4. How is the church decorated?
(a) With confetti.
(b) With red roses.
(c) With poinsettas.
(d) With white flowers.

5. Why does Aunt Ada Doom say they must get on with the feast?
(a) Because she is starving.
(b) Because the rental equipment has to be back by 5.
(c) Because a plane is picking her up in about an hour.
(d) Because Elfine and Richard will want to be getting on with the best part of the marriage.

6. Who sends a postcard full of enthusiasm to Cold Comfort Farm?
(a) Mr. Mybug.
(b) Elfine.
(c) Amos.
(d) Seth.

7. Who is meeting Flora and Judith for lunch?
(a) No one.
(b) An Austrian doctor.
(c) A lawyer.
(d) An artist.

8. What romance seems to be suddenly blooming?
(a) Between Flora and Reuben.
(b) Between Reubenand Elfine.
(c) None.
(d) Between Rennett and Mr. Mybug.

9. Which Starkadder does Flora encounter in Howling?
(a) Amos.
(b) Judith.
(c) Harkaway.
(d) Seth.

10. Who arrives at Cold Comfort Farm?
(a) Mr. Mybug and Mr. Neck.
(b) Charles.
(c) Richard.
(d) Elizabeth.

11. To whom does Reuben propose?
(a) Nettie.
(b) Miriam.
(c) Elfine.
(d) Flora.

12. About what is Adam in shock?
(a) Flora buys him a necktie.
(b) The new dish mop has disappeared.
(c) The Bull being in the pasture.
(d) Elfine's wedding plans.

13. What happens to Elfine's hair?
(a) It is dyed a golden blond.
(b) It is cut elegantly short.
(c) It is curled and stacked on top her head.
(d) It is straightened.

14. How will the nest with four pink eggs help Elfine?
(a) It will help her have four children.
(b) They will remind her of her days of whimsy.
(c) They will reflect back her lovliness to Richard.
(d) They are Faberge eggs and worth much money.

15. Who is the woman in a grand leather flying kit?
(a) Aunt Ada Doom's sister.
(b) Elfine.
(c) Aunt Ada Doom.
(d) Flora.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Aunt Ada Doom called?

2. What does Adam sing as he milks the cows?

3. Who decorates the farm?

4. Who does Reuben settle upon for marriage?

5. Where do Flora and Elfine go that night?

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