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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Flora ask of Judith?
2. Who admits giving his daughter chicken feathers?
3. What does Seth like to do in the evenings?
4. Who are Graceless, Pointless, Feckless, and Aimless?
5. When did Miriam have her baby?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe what Flora learns at her first breakfast at Cold Comfort Farm. What do you think might pique Flora's interest in what she learns?
2. What is the topic of the book Mr. Mybug is writing and what is Flora's reaction to hearing about it?
3. What would be an apt title for this chapter and why?
4. Briefly characterize each of the main Starkadders introduced in Chapter 3.
5. What does Flora learn about Seth and how does she plan to use this information?
6. What is Flora's solution to her situation?
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. To which relatives does Flora write?
9. Why is Flora Poste trying to make a decision about her future?
10. What do you think the postcard Flora receives might mean?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
COLD COMFORT FARM is a parody of late eighteenth/early nineteenth century naturalism literature, such as novels by D.H. Lawrence and Thomas Hardy. Discuss the following:
1. What is the definition of naturalism literature? Give several examples.
2. How does this novel parody naturalism literature?
3. Do you think this is an effective parody? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 2
If there is a manipulator, there has to be those who are manipulated. Discuss the following:
1. What are some of the ways Aunt Ada Doom manipulates her family? Give specific examples.
2. Why do you think the family allows themselves to be manipulated? Discuss several of the main characters specifically.
3. Why is Aunt Ada Doom not able to manipulate Flora Poste? Why does Aunt Ada Doom believe she cannot manipulate Flora?
Essay Topic 3
In Chapter 11, we first see the idea of the Pygmalion effect (or the Rosenthal effect). Discuss the following?
1. Who is Pygmalion in Greek Legend?
2. What is the Pygmalion effect (or sometimes called the Rosenthal effect)? What does this psychological phenomenon have to do with the Pygmalion of Greek myth?
3. Discuss Seth and Elfine and how the Pygmalion effect is relevant to their lives.
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