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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 Adam tell Flora about Cold Comfort Farm?
(a) That it is up for sale.
(b) That it is haunted.
(c) That it is cursed; seed will not grow and the cows are barren.
(d) That it is a very productive farm.

2. What happens to Miriam?
(a) She falls off the hayloft.
(b) She goes into labor.
(c) She marries her second cousin.
(d) She cuts her arm rather badly.

3. What is Adam doing when Flora comes downstairs?
(a) Playing a harmonica.
(b) Cutting turnips and watching the livestock through an open door.
(c) Whittling.
(d) Snoring.

4. What does Flora offer Miriam to wash the curtains?
(a) An old pair of pumps.
(b) A necklace.
(c) A pair of earrings.
(d) Money.

5. Who is one of the relatives Flora contacts?
(a) Two old maid aunts in Brighton.
(b) A bachelor uncle in Scotland.
(c) A first cousin in Demming.
(d) A third cousin in Wales.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Flora and Adam drive back to Cold Comfort?

2. How does Seth enter the room?

3. What is Flora doing when Adam comes in?

4. Who does Elfine think Aunt Ada Doom plans for Flora to marry?

5. Of what does Amos accuse Flora?

Short Essay Questions

1. Give a very brief synopsis of COLD COMFORT FARM.

2. How is the twig which Adam uses to wash dishes perhaps symbolic of Adam as a man?

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

4. What surprises Flora about Mrs. Beetle and how do you interpret Flora's reaction to Mrs. Beetle?

5. What is the topic of the book Mr. Mybug is writing and what is Flora's reaction to hearing about it?

6. How does Flora's plan begin to blossom for getting Amos Starkadder "out of the picture"?

7. If you were Miriam and had just delivered a baby, how would you feel about being asked to go wash curtains? Do you think this scene could have any other significance?

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

9. What do you think it says about Flora's personality that she thinks Mr. Mybug will undoubtedly fall in love with her?

10. Why is Flora Poste trying to make a decision about her future?

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