Cold Comfort Farm Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

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 - Medium

Stella Gibbons
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 137 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Miriam think of the idea of birth control?
(a) It's a splendid idea.
(b) It is contrary to nature.
(c) It couldn't work.
(d) She doesn't understand the technique.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Flora want to do?

2. What surprises Flora about Mrs. Beetle?

3. What literary device occurs at the opening to this chapter?

4. Why does Reuben eye Flora with some hostility?

5. What does Mr. Mybug suggest to Flora?

Short Essay Questions

1. To which relatives does Flora write?

2. Which reply from the relatives seems most intriguing and why?

3. What is Flora's solution to her situation?

4. What self-imposed task seems next to impossible once Flora is confronted with the realities of Cold Comfort Farm?

5. How does Miriam react to Flora's information about birth control and how is that reaction a reversal of roles between her and her mother?

6. What does Judith tell Adam and what does this suggest about Cold Comfort Farm?

7. What does Flora learn about Seth and how does she plan to use this information?

8. Describe what Flora learns at her first breakfast at Cold Comfort Farm. What do you think might pique Flora's interest in what she learns?

9. What is ironic about Amos calling Flora "a fornicator"?

10. What demonstrates Judith's rather bizarre attachment to her son, Seth?

(see the answer keys)

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