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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 29.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Ursula tells Hermione that Birkin wants her to sink herself and not to have any being of her own, Hermione responds, “Then why doesn’t he marry” what?
(a) “A concubine.”
(b) “An invalid.”
(c) “An odalisk.”
(d) “A mime.”

2. Where does Birkin day the Pompadour is located in Chapter 5?
(a) Piccadilly Circus.
(b) Sherwood Forest.
(c) Southwell Minster.
(d) Dresden.

3. The following phrase from Chapter 29 is an example of what literary technique: “golden like honey of darkness”?
(a) Assonance.
(b) Simile.
(c) Literary allusion.
(d) Alliteration.

4. What is Hermione’s last name in the novel?
(a) George.
(b) Salmon.
(c) Skrebensky.
(d) Roddice.

5. What is the title of Chapter 23?
(a) “Sunday Evening.”
(b) “The Industrial Magnate.”
(c) “Crème de Menthe.”
(d) “Excurse.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the river in Greek mythology that forms the boundary between the world of the living and the underworld?

2. What gemstone does Ursula worry is unlucky in Chapter 23?

3. What dance is described in Chapter 29 as “the Tyrolese dance of the clapping hands and tossing the partner in the air at the crisis”?

4. Of the inn that the two couples stay at in Chapter 29, Ursula thinks, “It had reminded Ursula again of home, of the Marsh, of her childhood, and of the journey to Brussels, and, strangely, of” whom?

5. Where does Hermione say she’s been away in Chapter 22?

(see the answer key)

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