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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 view of religious scripture?
(a) It is to be taken literally.
(b) It is to be strictly followed.
(c) It is just a collection of stories.
(d) It is not to be taken literally.

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

3. How does Lydia see herself when she is married to Paul Lensky?
(a) As a slave to him
(b) As an empowered woman
(c) As her own being
(d) As a free spirit

4. 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?
(a) Her mother tells her to take action at mending a pile of stockings.
(b) Her mother tells her she deserves equal opportunity.
(c) Her mother says that it will never happen.
(d) Her mother tells her that some day she will be equal to men.

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

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

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

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

9. What is young Tom Brangwen feeling behind his healthy, good looks, and well dressed appearance?
(a) A deep misery
(b) A violent nature
(c) Superiority
(d) Cleverness

10. What does Ursula hate about her mother?
(a) Her mother's need for independence
(b) Her mother making a living outside the home
(c) Her mother's satisfaction with child-bearing and domesticity
(d) Her mother's belief in the rights of women

11. How does Ursula view college as she sits in the lecture hall for her first class?
(a) She sees college as a necessity, but not enjoyable.
(b) College is drudgery.
(c) She is annoyed by the medieval buildings.
(d) Time fades away and she listens with ecstasy.

12. What type of child is Gudrun?
(a) She lives in a fantasy world.
(b) She is not trustworthy.
(c) She is violent.
(d) She is realistic.

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

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

15. What does Ursula feel after her first kiss with Skrebensky?
(a) An electric warmth
(b) Embarrassment
(c) Fear
(d) Guilt

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Ursula consumed with a fear of herself when she and Anton are in the cornstacks after the wedding?

2. What happens after Ursula writes a passionate love letter to Winifred?

3. What is Ursula's emotional state on the last day of school before she goes on to college?

4. What does Anton write in a letter to Ursula after he goes back to the army?

5. Why does Ursula's face get a strange, scared look at this time in her life?

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