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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 30-31.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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) “Sensuality.”
(c) “Vulgarity.”
(d) “Atrophy.”

3. The narrator says of Birkin in Chapter 16, “He wanted sex to revert to the level of the other appetites, to be regarded as a functional process, not as” what?
(a) “A resentment.”
(b) “A commitment.”
(c) “A procurement.”
(d) “A fulfillment.”

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

5. Gerald says his black and green silk robe was a caftan where in Chapter 20?
(a) Lebanon.
(b) Israel.
(c) Peru.
(d) Bokhara.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what nickname does Mr. Crich call Winifred in Chapter 21?

2. What is the name of the young man with his pregnant fiancée that Birkin and Ursula give the chair to in the market place in Chapter 26?

3. Who is described in Chapter 8 as “a learned, dry Baronet of fifty, who was always making witticisms and laughing at them heartily in a harsh, horse-laugh”?

4. Of Gerald’s parents, the narrator says in Chapter 17 that their relationship “was wordless and unknown, but it was deep, awful, a relation of utter” what?

5. What does Winifred fret over giving Gudrun when she arrives in Chapter 21?

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