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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 doesn't want to face adulthood.
(c) She is worried about her studies.
(d) She doesn't want to leave her family.

3. With whom do the Brangwen girls have a feud?
(a) The Phillips girls
(b) The schoolteacher
(c) The vicar's children
(d) The Phillips boys

4. How does Ursula get through the long weeks while Anton is away?
(a) Spending time with friends
(b) As if half alive
(c) Praying for his safe return
(d) Going to church every day

5. Which of the Brangwen boys has a soft, mysterious nature, strange peacefulness, informed air, and brings a foreign touch to the Marsh farm?
(a) Tom
(b) William
(c) Fred
(d) Alfred

6. What is Theresa's temperament?
(a) She is war-like
(b) She is timid.
(c) She is shy.
(d) She is very friendly.

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

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

9. What is Ursula's emotional state on the last day of school before she goes on to college?
(a) She is afraid to start over.
(b) She is sorry to leave.
(c) She feels free, proud and joyful.
(d) She is depressed about leaving.

10. What question torments Ursula as she enters womanhood?
(a) How many children will she have?
(b) Who will she marry?
(c) What will she do with her life?
(d) Will she be a good wife?

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

12. Why is Ursula consumed with a fear of herself when she and Anton are in the cornstacks after the wedding?
(a) She is afraid she won't be good enough for Anton.
(b) She has broken Anton, abating his fire.
(c) She is afraid of what she might do.
(d) She is afraid she will say something foolish.

13. Who is a great comfort to Ursula while she shrinks away from other people, afraid she is not like them?
(a) Uncle Fred
(b) Gudrun
(c) Uncle Tom
(d) William

14. 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 never became the person she could be.
(c) Her mother lost her independence.
(d) Her mother is right to accept her fate as a mother and a wife.

15. Where does Ursula's school mistress invite her to go on Saturday?
(a) An opera in Cossethay
(b) A play in London
(c) A bungalow on the Soar
(d) A café in Nottingham

Short Answer Questions

1. What keeps Ursula from giving up her studies for the matriculation examination even though they are such a drudgery?

2. What is Ursula's first impression of Mr. Skrebensky?

3. What is Ursula's impression of the colliers when she and Winifred go to her Uncle Tom's house in Wiggiston?

4. What kind of teacher does Ursula dream she will be?

5. What does Ursula try to figure out as she lies with a fever in bed?

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