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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the thought about Easter and the Resurrection that Lawrence gives the reader?
(a) Easter and the Resurrection give hope of an after life.
(b) Easter and the Resurrection are outweighed by the image of death
(c) Easter and the Resurrection are more important than Christmas.
(d) Easter and the Resurrection overcome the picture of death.

2. Why does Ursula enjoy staying at Belcote with Maggie's family?
(a) It is good to get away from home.
(b) She and Maggie catch up on old times.
(c) She is treated like a lady by Maggie's brothers.
(d) She enjoys working in Maggie's garden.

3. Who is Lydia's comforting friend after Tom's death?
(a) Anna
(b) Tilly
(c) Ursula
(d) Gudrun

4. What is it about Christmas day that disappoints the Brangwens?
(a) The hope of peace and ecstasy fades away.
(b) They did not receive the gifts they hoped for.
(c) The Christmas feast is not as big as usual.
(d) Their father is not home.

5. What keeps Ursula from giving up her studies for the matriculation examination even though they are such a drudgery?
(a) Her quest for complete independence
(b) She wants to make her father proud.
(c) It keeps her mind off Anton.
(d) She is competing with Gudrun.

6. What does Mr. Harby give to Ursula on her last day of school?
(a) A new pen
(b) A dictionary
(c) Two books of poetry, signed by all the teachers
(d) A Bible

7. What decision does Ursula make during her illness?
(a) She will be relieved to give up her freedom.
(b) She will marry Anton.
(c) She will be glad to rely upon Anton.
(d) She will remain free, and if there is a child, she will raise it herself.

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

9. Ursula resigns herself to teaching until she can do what?
(a) Take over the farm
(b) Find other employment
(c) Get married
(d) Go to college

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

11. Where does the Brangwen family move when William gets his new position?
(a) In a collier's cottage
(b) A flat in Nottingham
(c) A villa in Beldover
(d) In the back of a large church

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

13. How does Ursula feel as she waits for Anton to come home?
(a) Helpless
(b) Detached
(c) Unemotional
(d) Liberated

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ursula think the reason is that Mr. Harby bullies the children and other teachers in the classroom?

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

3. Where does Ursula's school mistress invite her to go on Saturday?

4. Why is Lydia thankful to Tom for the life he gave her?

5. What is Ursula's view of religious scripture?

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