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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ursula wish as she swims with her swimming class mistress?
(a) She wishes she were a better swimmer.
(b) She wishes her mistress would swim with someone else.
(c) She wants to touch her and feel her.
(d) She wishes she didn't have to take swimming.

2. What action does Ursula take to escape from the horses surrounding her when she goes for a walk in the rain?
(a) She climbs over a fence.
(b) She climbs a tree and leaps over the hedge.
(c) She runs to the gate.
(d) She hides behind a fallen tree.

3. What does Ursula try to figure out as she lies with a fever in bed?
(a) How to get to India to be with Anton
(b) How she will raise her baby with Anton
(c) How to break away from Skrebensky
(d) How she will accept life as a wife and mother

4. What is the complicated amalgam of religion that Ursula and Winifred discuss?
(a) A combination of suffering and redemption
(b) The motives of joy and miracles
(c) A mix of death and afterlife
(d) The motives of fear and love

5. What conclusion does Ursula come to about men and love?
(a) Men do not love, only dominate
(b) A woman can love only one man
(c) No one is ever really in love
(d) There are many men to love, not just one

6. What does Anton tell Ursula after she tells him that she does not ever want to get married?
(a) He says that it is a relief knowing they won't be married.
(b) He cares for her more than all the world, life or death.
(c) He says that he doesn't care if they get married.
(d) He calls her an uncaring shrew.

7. How does Ursula react when her father slaps her across the face for letting the children in the parish room?
(a) She asks him to forgive her
(b) She hates her siblings
(c) Defiance and mistrust grows in her
(d) She hates her mother.

8. What is the great peace that Ursula finds when she visits her grandmother in her bedroom on Marsh farm?
(a) To know she will get anything she wants from her grandmother
(b) To know her own importance within all those who lived before her
(c) To know that her grandmother loves her
(d) To know she can have all the sweets she wants

9. Why does Ursula refuse Anthony's proposal of marriage?
(a) He irritates her.
(b) She is a traveler.
(c) He demeans her.
(d) She thinks he is crude.

10. What kind of teacher does Ursula dream she will be?
(a) She will make learning clear, interesting and personal.
(b) She will keep a strict classroom.
(c) She will go through the motions with no enthusiasm.
(d) She will remain distant from the children.

11. Why can't Ursula escape from the world of system and work?
(a) She wants to have full rights in the working world.
(b) Her mother forces her to pay board.
(c) Her father demands that she work.
(d) She needs to support herself.

12. When Ursula believes she is pregnant with Anton's child, what does she decide about her mother's life?
(a) Her mother is a lost soul.
(b) Her mother lost her independence.
(c) Her mother never became the person she could be.
(d) Her mother is right to accept her fate as a mother and a wife.

13. What is the decision Anton and Ursula make the morning after they make love in the sand under the moon?
(a) They are done with each other.
(b) They will elope.
(c) They will get married and live in Paris.
(d) They will get married and live in India.

14. What is Lydia's advice for Ursula as they discuss Lydia's life with her husbands?
(a) Be responsible for everyone around you.
(b) Depend upon the people around you.
(c) Take all the blame for things that go wrong.
(d) Life goes on and don't take too much upon yourself.

15. How does Christian life affect the Brangwens?
(a) It is a constant source of hope.
(b) It becomes a mechanical action without real meaning.
(c) It is inspirational and fulfilling.
(d) It is the joy of reaching heaven.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Anton really feeling as he says goodbye to Ursula when he goes off to war?

2. What does Ursula do in Cossethay when she realizes she will be moving soon?

3. During her two weeks in Wiggiston, what is Ursula's attitude toward Winifred and her Uncle Tom?

4. What brings Anton Skrebensky back to the Marsh farm after he returns to the army?

5. How does Tom Brangwen die after returning home from Nottingham?

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