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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Judith to go for the next six months?
(a) No where.
(b) To a nursing home to recover.
(c) To London for psychiatric care.
(d) To America to find Amos.

2. Why does Seth rush off?
(a) Because he has to catch a train.
(b) So he is not detained by Aunt Ada Doom.
(c) He wants to meet some woman in the village.
(d) He is chasing the bull that got out of the pasture.

3. Why does Rennett cry?
(a) Because she didn't have a pretty wedding.
(b) She wishes she had not married Mr. Mybug.
(c) She spills brandy on her dress.
(d) She always cries at wedddings.

4. What does Aunt Ada Doom want for breakfast on the day of the wedding?
(a) Eggnog.
(b) Ham and eggs.
(c) A concoction with brandy, an egg, some cream and ice.
(d) Nothing.

5. To whom does Flora compare favorably to Mr. Mybug?
(a) Richard.
(b) Charles.
(c) Seth.
(d) Urk.

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

7. Where does Flora take Elfine?
(a) To Howling to meet Mr. Mybug.
(b) To London to get fitted for the upcoming ball.
(c) To London to meet Richard.
(d) To Howling to meet with a tailor.

8. What has Aunt Ada Doom called?
(a) A festival.
(b) A meeting of the heads of households.
(c) A counting.
(d) An accounting.

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

10. What does Mr. Neck say the woodshed line is?
(a) Innovative.
(b) A new one on him.
(c) Old hat.
(d) Melodramatic.

11. What is an ominous sign when Seth, Flora and Elfine return to Cold Comfort Farm?
(a) There is an unusual amount of smoke coming out of the chimney.
(b) Everything looks normal.
(c) There are no lights on in the house.
(d) Every light is on in the house.

12. Who promises to secure invitations to the Hawk-Monitor's
(a) Amos.
(b) Charles.
(c) Claud Hart-Harris.
(d) Richard.

13. Of what does the atmosphere in the family gathering remind Flora?
(a) Young Frankenstein.
(b) Madame Tussand's Serial Killer Room.
(c) The Adams Family.
(d) Madame Tussand's Chamber of Horrors.

14. What does Flora wonder about the sukebind on the mantle?
(a) If it is symbolic of something.
(b) If when the sukebind buds open, all the trouble begins.
(c) If it is poisonous.
(d) If it is the thing that is so aromatic.

15. What does Adam do?
(a) Puts wreaths around the cow's necks.
(b) Runs off with the cook.
(c) Makes ice cream.
(d) Cries.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Starkadder tell Flora that is disconcerting?

2. What does Flora want to know from Aunt Ada Doom?

3. Why is Reuben hard at work?

4. Who decorates the farm?

5. Why does Aunt Ada Doom say they must get on with the feast?

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