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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Harby give to Ursula on her last day of school?

2. What subjects do Ursula and Maggie discuss when they are together?

3. How does Ursula view college as she sits in the lecture hall for her first class?

4. What conclusion does Ursula come to about men and love?

5. What does Ursula wish as she swims with her swimming class mistress?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the relationship between Ursula and Anton Skrebensky when he visits Marsh farm.

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

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

5. Describe Anna's thoughts about William's new job and their moving away from Cossethay.

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

7. As Ursula continues to teach, how does her attitude toward education change?

8. After a few weeks living at home, how does Ursula view her mother's life?

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

10. How do the Brangwen children adapt to their new home?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Analyze Ursula's coming of age throughout the novel.

2) What fears and emotions does she experience as he grows from childhood to adulthood?

3) How does her outlook on life, education, and love change as she develops from a young girl into a woman?

4) Cite examples of the character changes in Ursula throughout her life.

Essay Topic 2

A rainbow appears twice in the novel.

1) What is the significance of the rainbow in each of the appearances?

2) What does the rainbow symbolize for the characters who see it?

3) Cite the events happening during each of the sightings of the rainbow.

4) Which characters see the significance of the rainbows?

Essay Topic 3

1) Evaluate the elements of cause and effect in this story using examples from the novel.

2) Choose three events from the story which cause Lydia Lensky's life to undergo a change.

3) How does she react to the events and their effects?

4) How does she grow emotionally in her own life and in her attitude toward her first husband, her second husband and her daughter because of these changes?

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