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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 Ursula try to figure out as she lies with a fever in bed?

2. What do Winifred and Ursula do when they are at the bungalow?

3. Why does Ursula refuse Anthony's proposal of marriage?

4. Where does Ursula find a teaching position after her parents forbid her to go to Kingston-on-Thames for an interview?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Compare the temperaments of Gudrun and Theresa Brangwen.

2. How does Ursula's original joy about college change as she prepares for her final examination?

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

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

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

6. Why doesn't Mr. Harby, the schoolmaster, like Ursula Brangwen?

7. Describe the events that lead up to Ursula's love affair with Miss Inger.

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

9. Summarize the effect Ursula has on Anton as they make love in the cornstacks.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

1) Compare the characters of Anna and William Brangwen.

2) Which character gives more to their relationship? Explain.

3) How do their views differ on life, marriage and children?

4) Which character is more realistic in his view of life? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

In two scenes of the novel, Ursula and Anton are making love in the moonlight.

1) How does Lawrence use images of moonlight and shadow to convey the tone of their love making?

2) How does the imagery of moonlight in the first scene in the cornstacks compare with the moonlight in the sandhills later in the novel.

3) Justify the answers with examples from the novel.

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