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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 want to know from Aunt Ada Doom?
(a) What she really saw in the woodshed.
(b) Why Aunt Ada Doom wasted her life.
(c) Nothing.
(d) How Flora's father was wronged.

2. What does Aunt Ada Doom decide to do which is out of character?
(a) Tell Elfine she can marry Richard.
(b) Help Judith do the yearly ceremony.
(c) Go downstairs.
(d) Let Flora decide who she wants to marry.

3. Who does Flora call after the reception is over?
(a) Richard.
(b) Chad.
(c) Peter.
(d) Charles.

4. From where does Flora think there will be opposition to Elfine's choice?
(a) Amos only.
(b) No one as they will think Elfine is moving upwards in class.
(c) The Starkadder family.
(d) Only Aunt Ada Doom

5. How many pictures of Seth has Judith veiled?
(a) 20.
(b) 2000.
(c) 10.
(d) 200.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Flora notice about Cold Comfort Farm?

2. About what does Reuben worry?

3. Who leaves the group?

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

5. Why does Rennett cry?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the significance of the sukebind?

3. How do you think the situation with Flora and the bull is symbolic of Flora with the lives of the Starkadders?

4. What do you think it says about Dick that he has decided to ask Elfine to marry him after she has made herself gorgeous?

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

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

7. What does Harkaway tell Flora and what is her response?

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

9. Do you think Aunt Ada Doom is "doomed" to misery?

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

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