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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) “Cleopatra and Marc Anthony.”
(c) “Romeo and Juliet.”
(d) “Paul et Virginie.”

3. Birkin says in Chapter 16 that “every true artist is the salvation of” what?
(a) “The one before.”
(b) “Non-artists.”
(c) “Every other.”
(d) “The one after.”

4. What is the cat referred to that encounters a stray in Chapter 13?
(a) The Harp cat.
(b) The Mino cat.
(c) The Theo cat.
(d) The Berry cat.

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

6. How is the horse described that Gerald Crich is riding when he meets Ursula and Gudrun by the railroad tracks in Chapter 9?
(a) “A red Arab mare.”
(b) “A palomino Quarter Horse mare.”
(c) “A black Fjord Horse stallion.”
(d) “A white Falabella stallion.”

7. What is the last name of Ursula and Gudrun in the novel?
(a) Crich.
(b) Brangwen.
(c) Coulson.
(d) Bradley.

8. Rupert Birkin comes to Ursula’s classroom and helps teach the students how to draw what in Chapter 3?
(a) Pine cones.
(b) Rabbits.
(c) Birch trees.
(d) Catkins.

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

10. What is Halliday’s first name in the novel?
(a) Maxim.
(b) Hasan.
(c) Basil.
(d) Julius.

11. How much money does Gudrun have “of which nobody knew anything” in Chapter 17?
(a) 50 pounds.
(b) 100 pounds.
(c) 70 pounds.
(d) 20 pounds.

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

13. 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) “Manger.”
(b) “Church.”
(c) “Pieta.”
(d) “Chariot.”

14. What is the name of the school where Ursula teaches in Chapter 1?
(a) Robert Collins Grammar School.
(b) Willey Green Grammar School.
(c) Thomas Jones Grammar School.
(d) James Thompson Grammar School.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Breadalby is described as a house of what architectural style?

3. What song does Ursula sing after she and Gudrun finish their tea-picnic by the lake in Chapter 14?

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

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?

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