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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does Gerald compare himself to Cain in Chapter 14?
(a) He married his mother.
(b) He killed his mother as a child.
(c) He killed his brother as a child.
(d) He killed his father as a young man.

5. Of the African sculpture of a woman giving birth, Gerald asks “Why is it art?” What is Birkin’s reply?
(a) “It is an example of real life.”
(b) “It shows people at their most vulnerable.”
(c) “It displays a common experience.”
(d) “It conveys a complete truth.”

6. Gerald Crich’s mother is repeatedly compared to what type of bird in Chapter 17?
(a) A sparrow.
(b) A turkey.
(c) An owl.
(d) A hawk.

7. 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) Cambridge.
(c) The University of London.
(d) Oxford.

8. The electrician that Gudrun meets in the market on Friday night in Chapter 9 is described as “a scientist with a passion for” what?
(a) “Botany.”
(b) “Physics.”
(c) “Psychology.”
(d) “Sociology.”

9. Ursula thinks of Birkin’s eyes in Chapter 15 as having “such a dark, constant will of” what?
(a) “Assertion.”
(b) “Power.”
(c) “Wealth.”
(d) “Jealousy.”

10. Who do Gudrun and Ursula go to in Willey Green to buy honey from in Chapter 17?
(a) Mrs. Salmon.
(b) Mrs. Kirk.
(c) Miss Inglis.
(d) Miss Bradley.

11. By what name does Birkin introduce Pussum in Chapter 6?
(a) Miss Salmon.
(b) Miss Varley.
(c) Miss Halliday.
(d) Miss Darrington.

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

13. Breadalby is described as a house of what architectural style?
(a) Japanese.
(b) Greek.
(c) Roman.
(d) Georgian.

14. Both Gudrun and Ursula wear dresses of what color crepe to the water-party in Chapter 14?
(a) White.
(b) Blue.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Green.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 12?

2. 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?

3. Gudrun and Ursula row their canoe across the lake to bathe and picnic by a grove of what type of trees in Chapter 14?

4. Who is described as the only one of his children that Gerald’s father had loved in Chapter 17?

5. Where has Hermione asked Ursula and Gudrun to come visit her and spend a few days in Chapter 4?

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