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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. Where does Orlando go for a walk after she realizes she needs to get married?
(a) Over a bridge.
(b) The park.
(c) In the forest.
(d) Through her garden.

2. What do Shelmerdine and Orlando decide they want to do just after meeting for the first time?
(a) Get married.
(b) Be enemies.
(c) Make love.
(d) Be friends.

3. What does Orlando realize that her written words were able to express only before she was married?
(a) Her struggles.
(b) Her boredom.
(c) Her anger.
(d) Her happiness.

4. How does Nick Greene feel about Orlando's poem "The Oak Tree" when he reads it in the 19th century?
(a) He loves it.
(b) He thinks it has promise.
(c) He is indifferent.
(d) He hates it.

5. What does Orlando begin searching for on the streets of London when she begins dressing oddly?
(a) Women.
(b) Love.
(c) Adventure.
(d) Men.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Orlando buy just before setting sail to England for the first time as a woman?

2. What is Shelmerdine's profession?

3. What does Orlando sit down to work on at the beginning of Chapter 6?

4. What does the thing that controls Orlando's hand do when she is trying to write her poem?

5. Where does Orlando take a carriage to after finishing "The Oak Tree"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Orlando go to a bookshop after running into Nicolas Greene on the street?

2. How is Orlando's walk in the park described in Chapter 5?

3. What effect does Orlando realize becoming married has had on her writing?

4. How is Orlando's attempt at working on her poem described at the beginning of Chapter 6?

5. How does the archduke save Orlando from a crowd of commoners who remember her as a man?

6. What happens when Orlando accidentally shows a bit of ankle on deck of the merchant ship to England?

7. How is Orlando and Shelmerdine's wedding described?

8. How does the captain of the ship Orlando boards for England in Chapter 4 treat her when she comes onboard?

9. What does Orlando do after she finishes her poem "The Oak Tree"?

10. How does Orlando meet Shelmerdine?

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