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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Halliday’s Hindu servant in Chapter 6?
(a) Julius.
(b) Basil.
(c) Hasan.
(d) Maxim.

2. What gentleman at the wedding in Chapter 1 does Gudrun immediately find attractive?
(a) Lord Bacon.
(b) Gerald Crich.
(c) Lloyd George.
(d) Herr Loerke.

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”?
(a) Miss Inglis.
(b) Miss Bradley.
(c) Mrs. Salmon.
(d) Mrs. Varley.

4. What kind of dance movements does Gudrun dance while Ursula sings after their lakeside picnic in Chapter 14?
(a) “Delacroze movements.”
(b) “Kodaly movements.”
(c) “Suzuki movements.”
(d) “Schulwerk movements.”

5. After Birkin’s visit to Ursula’s house in Chapter 15, Ursula is stricken by what inexplicable emotion for Birkin?
(a) Love.
(b) Jealousy.
(c) Envy.
(d) Hatred.

6. In Chapter 13, Ursula receives an invitation for her and Gudrun to have tea with whom?
(a) Rupert.
(b) Hermione.
(c) Birkin.
(d) Gerald.

7. Of Birkin, the narrator says in Chapter 16 that he hated what “even worse than marriage”?
(a) “Church.”
(b) “Gambling.”
(c) “Promiscuity.”
(d) “Politics.”

8. Who drops Gudrun’s drawings into the water in Chapter 10?
(a) Hermione.
(b) Ursula.
(c) Birkin.
(d) Palmer.

9. According to the narrator in Chapter 17, Gerald had refused to go to what school, instead choosing a German university?
(a) The University of Leeds.
(b) The University of London.
(c) Oxford.
(d) Cambridge.

10. Where does Gudrun tell Gerald she had a canoe before at the party in Chapter 14?
(a) Willey Water.
(b) Derbyshire.
(c) Paris.
(d) Arundel.

11. What is the title of Chapter 18?
(a) “Fetish.”
(b) “Excurse.”
(c) “Rabbit.”
(d) “Diver.”

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

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

14. Rupert Birkin tells Ursula in Chapter 11, “Man is one of the mistakes of creation—like” what?
(a) “The Cyclops.”
(b) “The tyrannosaurus.”
(c) “The ichthyosauri.”
(d) “The Phoenix.”

15. The groom tells the wedding guests at the reception that he was late for what reason in Chapter 2?
(a) His shoes needed shining.
(b) A dog stole his tie.
(c) His pants were wrinkled.
(d) He was missing a button hook.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who prepares to take on the role of hostess from her mother at the Crich water-party in Chapter 14?

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?

4. Who tells Gerald Crich that she hated him for how he treated his horse the other day in Chapter 12?

5. Gerald Crich’s mother is repeatedly compared to what type of bird in Chapter 17?

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