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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. Why is Flora both relieved and excited?
(a) That Elfine is expecting because they were afraid she was sterile.
(b) That Charles is there.
(c) That Richard announced his engagement to Elfine.
(d) That Elfine receives the lady-in-waiting position.

2. Where is Seth going?
(a) Out to slop the pigs.
(b) To London to be on stage.
(c) To Hollywood to be in the "talkies."
(d) To New York to be on Broadway.

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

4. Where does Flora secure rooms for her and Elfine?
(a) At the Ritz.
(b) At the Bowler's Club.
(c) At the New River Club.
(d) At the London Mariott.

5. What are Aunt Ada Doom's first words to Flora?
(a) "Elfine is not marrying that man."
(b) "You are a nasty, nasty girl."
(c) "You will be marrying Urk."
(d) "I saw something nasty in the woodshed."

Short Answer Questions

1. Who arrives at Cold Comfort Farm?

2. What has Aunt Ada Doom called?

3. Who does Flora call after the reception is over?

4. To whom does Reuben propose?

5. What does Flora wonder about the sukebind on the mantle?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What do you think is the symbolic meaning of Flora having the sukebind removed?

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

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

9. What fairy tale does Elfine's debut at the dance seem most like?

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

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