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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Ursula's face get a strange, scared look at this time in her life?
(a) She is so confused and emotional.
(b) She is worried about her studies.
(c) She doesn't want to face adulthood.
(d) She doesn't want to leave her family.

2. How does Anna view her relationship with her cousin Will?
(a) She is indifferent to him.
(b) He is her escape from the farm into the outside world.
(c) She finds him annoying.
(d) She finds him stupid and useless.

3. William comes home from the park a changed man. How does Anna react to this new side of her husband?
(a) She tells him to get out.
(b) She ignores him completely.
(c) She is afraid of him.
(d) She is enthralled by his new strangeness.

4. During her two weeks in Wiggiston, what is Ursula's attitude toward Winifred and her Uncle Tom?
(a) She loves them both.
(b) They repulse her.
(c) They inspire her.
(d) She learns from them.

5. What lesson about life did Ursula learn at an early age after her father insults her for stepping in the seed beds?
(a) She learned to obey her father.
(b) She learned to go to her mother for sympathy.
(c) She learned to rely on her sisters.
(d) She learned to harden herself from the outside world.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the complicated amalgam of religion that Ursula and Winifred discuss?

2. While Anton is away, who does Ursula fall in love with while at school?

3. Whose imminent visit from Nottingham excites the 18-year-old Anna?

4. How does Anna feel about people she meets outside the Marsh farm?

5. What does Ursula wish as she swims with her swimming class mistress?

(see the answer key)

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