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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 sing as he milks the cows?
(a) Wedding songs.
(b) Songs about Bull.
(c) Tavern songs.
(d) "This little mop of mine."

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

3. Who is with Aunt Ada Doom?
(a) No one.
(b) Rennet and Elfine.
(c) Flora and Judith.
(d) Judith and Rennet.

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

5. About what is Adam in shock?
(a) The new dish mop has disappeared.
(b) Flora buys him a necktie.
(c) Elfine's wedding plans.
(d) The Bull being in the pasture.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who plans to motor down to Cold Comfort Farm in the next couple days?

2. How many pictures of Seth has Judith veiled?

3. How is Elfine's entrance onto the ballroom floor?

4. Who promises to secure invitations to the Hawk-Monitor's

5. What does Flora think is going on with Richard's mother?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of the sukebind?

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

3. What does Flora ask Aunt Ada Doom about Flora's father and what is the answer?

4. What might be the symbolizes of the lights being on when Seth, Elfine and Flora return to Cold Comfort Farm from the ball?

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does Dr. Mudel suggest to "fix" Judith Starkadder and what do you think is Judith's fixation that is causing problems?

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