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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Chapter 15 means pertaining to time or concerned with the worldly?
(a) Iridescent.
(b) Denouement.
(c) Temporal.
(d) Conclave.

2. What song does Ursula sing after she and Gudrun finish their tea-picnic by the lake in Chapter 14?
(a) “Aubade.”
(b) “Mac Flecknoe.”
(c) “Annchen von Tharau.”
(d) “Ye Little Birds that Sit and Sing.”

3. Who is described as the only one of his children that Gerald’s father had loved in Chapter 17?
(a) Laura.
(b) Birkin.
(c) Gerald.
(d) Winifred.

4. What is the name of the electrician that Gudrun befriends at the market in Chapter 9?
(a) Palmer.
(b) Billy.
(c) Birkin.
(d) Lloyd.

5. According to the author in Chapter 1, Gudrun and Ursula “both had the remote, virgin look of modern girls, sisters of Artemis rather than of” whom?
(a) “Cala.”
(b) “Tovo.”
(c) “Midi.”
(d) “Hebe.”

Short Answer Questions

1. By what name is the laborers wife at the mill called in Chapter 12?

2. How does Gerald say he injured his hand in Chapter 14?

3. Who is described in Chapter 6 as a “prim young Russian with the smooth, warm-colored face and black, oiled hair”?

4. What word from Chapter 15 means adverse in tendency or effect; unfriendly; hostile?

5. Of the African sculpture of a woman giving birth, Gerald asks “Why is it art?” What is Birkin’s reply?

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