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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 25-28.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Chapter 9 refers to a coalmine, including all the buildings and equipment?
(a) Colliery.
(b) Minstrel.
(c) Catalytic.
(d) Carabineer.

2. Of Gerald, the narrator states in Chapter 25, “There was a numbness upon him, a numbness either of unborn, absent volition, or of” what?
(a) “Masculinity.”
(b) “Atrophy.”
(c) “Vulgarity.”
(d) “Sensuality.”

3. Birkin exclaims to Ursula in the marketplace in Chapter 26, “It is all possessions, possessions, bullying you and turning you into” what?
(a) “A standardization.”
(b) “A statistic.”
(c) “An anomaly.”
(d) “A generalization.”

4. What is the name of Birkin’s landlady who answers the door to Ursula in Chapter 27?
(a) Miss Bradley.
(b) Mrs. Salmon.
(c) Mrs. Kirk.
(d) Mrs. Varley.

5. What kind of flowers does Birkin send out floating across the pond in Chapter 11?
(a) Irises.
(b) Daisies.
(c) Roses.
(d) Poppies.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Birkin says he’ll quit his job and live without humanity in Chapter 11, Ursula asks him if he has enough money to live on. How much does Birkin respond that he receives per year?

2. Who drops Gudrun’s drawings into the water in Chapter 10?

3. How is the horse described that Gerald Crich is riding when he meets Ursula and Gudrun by the railroad tracks in Chapter 9?

4. By what nickname does Gudrun frequently call her sister in the novel?

5. When Ursula and Rupert Birkin take a punt to the island of the pond in Chapter 11, he says of the “jungle of rank plants,” “I shall mow this down, and then it will be romantic—like” what?

(see the answer key)

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