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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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

5. What does the rainbow forming over the corrupt land symbolize for Ursula?
(a) Yearning
(b) Love
(c) Forgiveness
(d) Hope

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Theresa's temperament?

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

3. What is the thought about Easter and the Resurrection that Lawrence gives the reader?

4. What is Skrebensky's view on the role of an individual?

5. What action does Ursula take to escape from the horses surrounding her when she goes for a walk in the rain?

Short Essay Questions

1. Summarize Ursula's attitude and duties as the eldest child of Anna and William Brangwen.

2. What are Lydia Brangwen's hopes after Tom dies and she sees the troubles of her sons?

3. Explain Ursula's plans for her future when she discovers that she is pregnant.

4. Explain the circumstances of Tom Brangwen's death.

5. What does Anton Skrebensky believe is the responsibility of every person?

6. Summarize Ursula's emotional state when she moves back home after passing her matriculation examination.

7. Explain the realization that Ursula comes to as she passes from childhood into womanhood.

8. Describe the temperament of Tom Brangwen's son, Tom.

9. What does Ursula decide Winifred should do after they are no longer lovers?

10. What is the response Anton gives to Ursula when she tells him she does not want to get married?

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