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

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

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

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

5. What does Aunt Ada Doom keep thinking?
(a) About how many more Starkadder's will be leaving the farm.
(b) About what she should do now.
(c) About how lucky they were that Flora came to Cold Comfort Farm.
(d) About what she saw in the woodshed for real.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Neck say the woodshed line is?

2. Why does Seth rush off?

3. What happens to Elfine's hair?

4. What is the purpose of what Aunt Ada Doom has called?

5. From where does Flora think there will be opposition to Elfine's choice?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Flora give Elfine to help her and do you think it will?

2. How are Seth's life and Elfine's life similar?

3. What is Flora's next tidying-up project and how does she start it?

4. How is Aunt Ada Doom's manipulative efforts symbolic of the change that is occurring to the Starkadder clan?

5. What does Aunt Ada Doom want on the morning of Elfine's wedding and what might her request symbolize?

6. Whose perspective does chapter 14 begin with and what may it portend?

7. What is ironic about the scene with Urk and Miriam?

8. What is the significance of the sukebind?

9. What convinces Flora that there is more to Seth than meets the eye and what does it seem she will do about him?

10. Describe Aunt Ada Doom's appearance and behavior in the downstairs when Flora and the others walk in after the ball.

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