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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Gudrun asks Gerald in Chapter 14 if he’s ever been on a steamer from Westminster Bridge to where?
(a) Cologne.
(b) Derbyshire.
(c) Richmond.
(d) Beldover.

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

3. 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?
(a) 650 pounds.
(b) 1,200 pounds.
(c) 400 pounds.
(d) 250 pounds.

4. What is the title of Chapter 12?
(a) “Sketch-Book.”
(b) “The Industrial Magnate.”
(c) “Carpeting.”
(d) “A Chair.”

5. What city does Gudrun consider to be “dry, and essentially boring” in Chapter 17?
(a) Innsbruck.
(b) St. Petersburg.
(c) Paris.
(d) Brussels.

6. 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?
(a) “Odysseus and Penelope.”
(b) “Romeo and Juliet.”
(c) “Paul et Virginie.”
(d) “Cleopatra and Marc Anthony.”

7. What is the title of Chapter 4?
(a) “Sunday Evening.”
(b) “A Chair.”
(c) “Diver.”
(d) “Gladiatorial.”

8. When Gerald awakens to find Halliday and others sitting naked by the fire in Chapter 7, he compares Halliday as being “like Christ in a” what?
(a) “Pieta.”
(b) “Manger.”
(c) “Church.”
(d) “Chariot.”

9. What is the name of the chief mine-owner in the district where Ursula and Gudrun grew up in the novel?
(a) Thomas Crich.
(b) Billy McFarlane.
(c) William Brangwen.q
(d) Lord Bacon.

10. Where does the wedding reception take place in Chapter 2?
(a) Wetlands.
(b) Shortlands.
(c) Drylands.
(d) Highlands.

11. How does Gerald say he injured his hand in Chapter 14?
(a) He fell down a flight of stairs.
(b) A horse bit it.
(c) He caught it in some machinery.
(d) Playing croquet.

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

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

14. What word from Chapter 15 means adverse in tendency or effect; unfriendly; hostile?
(a) Verity.
(b) Denouement.
(c) Inimical.
(d) Pandemic.

15. While riding on the train to London, Gerald Crich asks Rupert Birkin where he will stay in the city. Birkin replies he will stay with a friend where in Chapter 5?
(a) In Soho.
(b) In Cambridge.
(c) In Westminster.
(d) In Noho.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Who do Gudrun and Ursula go to in Willey Green to buy honey from in Chapter 17?

3. Who jumps in to save Gerald’s sister from drowning in Chapter 14?

4. What is the last name of Ursula and Gudrun in the novel?

5. By what name does Birkin introduce Pussum in Chapter 6?

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