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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Ursula's reaction after boys from her class throw stones at her in the street?
(a) She becomes hard and impersonal.
(b) She asks the boys in the class who threw the stones.
(c) She gives up on her teaching job.
(d) She begs the children to work hard.

2. Where does Anna send Ursula and Gudrun when the pettiness of the village children begins to bother them?
(a) To grammar school in London
(b) To the grammar school in Nottingham
(c) To Cossethay College
(d) To their grandmothers for home schooling

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

4. 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 runs to the gate.
(c) She hides behind a fallen tree.
(d) She climbs a tree and leaps over the hedge.

5. Where does Ursula find a teaching position after her parents forbid her to go to Kingston-on-Thames for an interview?
(a) The Nottingham Grammar School
(b) The Ikleston Elementary School
(c) The Cossethay Grammar School
(d) The Brinsley Street School

6. 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 the joy of reaching heaven.
(d) It is inspirational and fulfilling.

7. How does Anton react when he is away from Ursula after their affair in London and Paris?
(a) He needs this time to think.
(b) He is glad to be alone.
(c) He is exhilarated and happy.
(d) He feels dead, extinct and sterile.

8. Strebensky returns from Africa and starts up his relationship with Ursula again. What are Ursula's inner feelings after she and Anton consummate their love?
(a) She is strong and sure of herself.
(b) She is critical and angry with herself.
(c) She feels guilty and sinful.
(d) She is timid and unsure.

9. How does Ursula feel about college as she prepares for her final examination?
(a) She thinks college is a sham.
(b) Her studies are the truth of life.
(c) College is the reality of life.
(d) She is as excited as the first day of college

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

11. Why does Lydia feel sorry for her first husband, Paul Lensky?
(a) Because he died young, scarcely living
(b) Because he had no heirs
(c) Because he had a poor childhood
(d) Because he died old and alone

12. What does Anton believe Ursula wants to do to him, even though they are lovers?
(a) Leave him for someone else
(b) Destroy his being
(c) Dominate him
(d) Insult his beliefs

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

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

15. Why does 11-year-old Ursula find it a bother to be the eldest of six children?
(a) Because she has to homeschool her siblings
(b) Because she has to take three of the six children to school
(c) Because she has to cook every meal
(d) Because she has to wash everyone's clothes

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the response of Ursula's mother when Ursula says that she wants to have an equal place with men in the field of action and work?

2. How does Anna react to the position of hand-work instructor in Nottingham for which William applies?

3. What does Ursula tell Anton in the letter she sends to him?

4. What does Ursula hate about her mother?

5. What is it that makes the new house in Beldover feel like a home to the Brangwen children?

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