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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who answers the door when Birkin goes to the Brangwen home in Chapter 19?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Rosalind.
(c) Laura.
(d) Winifred.

2. What song is Ursula persuaded to sing for the company at the inn in Chapter 29?
(a) “Bluebells of Scotland.”
(b) “Old Scotia.”
(c) “Annie Lowrie.”
(d) “Flowers ‘O the Forest.”

3. What does Winifred fret over giving Gudrun when she arrives in Chapter 21?
(a) A bouquet of flowers.
(b) A book of poetry.
(c) A cup of tea.
(d) A plate of food.

4. After meeting up in Innsbruck, Gerald, Gudrun, Birkin, and Ursula descend at the tiny railroad station where in Chapter 29?
(a) Ostend.
(b) Hohenhausen.
(c) Derbyshire.
(d) St. Petersburg.

5. What does Ursula’s father do during the argument after she announces she will get married tomorrow in Chapter 27?
(a) He storms out of the house.
(b) He gives her a kiss.
(c) He slaps her.
(d) He calls his mother.

6. Birkin tells Ursula in Chapter 19, “I wouldn't give a straw for your female ego—it's” what?
(a) “A rag doll.”
(b) “Insignificant.”
(c) “A gentle flower.”
(d) “Rubbish.”

7. Discussing Loerke, Gerald asks Gudrun in Chapter 30, “What makes you so smitten with that little” what?
(a) “Vermin.”
(b) “Tramp.”
(c) “Transient.”
(d) “Rebel.”

8. The narrator says in Chapter 30 that Gudrun and Loerke “talked in a mixture of languages. The ground-work was” what?
(a) “Polish.”
(b) “Spanish.”
(c) “Russian.”
(d) “French.”

9. Ursula tells Hermione in Chapter 22, “I think it is degrading not to be” what?
(a) “Informed.”
(b) “Happy.”
(c) “Curious.”
(d) “Opinionated.”

10. 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?
(a) Peter.
(b) George.
(c) Paul.
(d) Fred.

11. Where do Ursula and Birkin stop during their train journey for half an hour for breakfast in Chapter 29?
(a) Basle.
(b) Bokhara.
(c) Beldover.
(d) Brussels.

12. What is the title of Chapter 23?
(a) “Sunday Evening.”
(b) “Excurse.”
(c) “The Industrial Magnate.”
(d) “Crème de Menthe.”

13. Imagining a future for Gerald, Gudrun thinks in Chapter 29, “He would be a Napoleon of peace, or” whom?
(a) “Columbus.”
(b) “Darwin.”
(c) “Bismarck.”
(d) “Cortez.”

14. Gudrun says that Fanny Bath is “frightfully in love” with what painter in Chapter 29?
(a) William Brangwen.
(b) Lloyd George.
(c) Billy McFarlane.
(d) Thomas Crich.

15. What does Ursula bring to Birkin when she walks back to the car after storming off in Chapter 23?
(a) A leaf.
(b) A pinecone.
(c) A stone.
(d) A flower.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the French word “bagatelle” from Chapter 30 translate to in English?

2. What servant does Ursula recall in Chapter 29, “who used to give her bread and butter sprinkled with brown sugar, in the old living-room where the grandfather clock had two pink roses in a basket painted above the figures on the face”?

3. What gemstone does Ursula worry is unlucky in Chapter 23?

4. The narrator states in Chapter 24, “When Gudrun heard that Mr. Crich was dead, she felt” what?

5. Where does the narrator say Birkin went for a time after recovering from his illness in Chapter 19?

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