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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What gemstone does Ursula worry is unlucky in Chapter 23?
(a) Opal.
(b) Sapphire.
(c) Garnet.
(d) Ruby.

2. Birkin tells Ursula in Chapter 26, “Now my rooms at the Mill are quite complete, I want them” where?
(a) “Beside the bay.”
(b) “Overlooking the river.”
(c) “On top of the mountain.”
(d) “At the bottom of the sea.”

3. Birkin tells Gerald in Chapter 20, “There are three cures for ennui: sleep, drink,” and what?
(a) “Thought.”
(b) “Travel.”
(c) “Food.”
(d) “Prayer.”

4. What does the following German phrase from Chapter 30 translate to in English: “Soll ich Fraulein sagen?”
(a) “What do you mean to say?”
(b) “I am shocked.”
(c) “You can’t be serious.”
(d) “Tell me the truth.”

5. Gudrun tells Gerald that she will leave the inn where they have stayed for the winter when in Chapter 30?
(a) The day after tomorrow.
(b) In ten days.
(c) In two days.
(d) In three weeks.

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

7. What is the title of Chapter 26?
(a) “A Chair.”
(b) “Sketch-Book.”
(c) “Diver.”
(d) “Fetish.”

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

9. What dance is described in Chapter 29 as “the Tyrolese dance of the clapping hands and tossing the partner in the air at the crisis”?
(a) The Waltz.
(b) The Polka.
(c) The Schuhplatteln.
(d) The Landler.

10. Of the inn that the two couples stay at in Chapter 29, Ursula thinks, “It had reminded Ursula again of home, of the Marsh, of her childhood, and of the journey to Brussels, and, strangely, of” whom?
(a) “Billy McFarlane.”
(b) “William Brangwen.”
(c) “Lord Peter.”
(d) “Anton Skrebensky.”

11. What is the title of Chapter 24?
(a) “Sketch-Book.”
(b) “Excurse.”
(c) “Death and Love.”
(d) “Gladiatorial.”

12. Where do Gudrun and Gerald set off for, where they will meet Ursula and Birkin in Chapter 28?
(a) Derbyshire.
(b) Innsbruck.
(c) Arundel.
(d) Hohenhausen.

13. What is the river in Greek mythology that forms the boundary between the world of the living and the underworld?
(a) The River Sphinx.
(b) The River Styx.
(c) The River Phoenix.
(d) The River Sasquatch.

14. Of England, Birkin says in Chapter 29, “It's a great actual unreality now, an aggregation into unreality. It might be real, if there were no” what?
(a) “Irishmen.”
(b) “Spaniards.”
(c) “Frenchmen.”
(d) “Englishmen.”

15. Where does the narrator say Birkin went for a time after recovering from his illness in Chapter 19?
(a) The south of France.
(b) The north of Poland.
(c) The east of Germany.
(d) The west of Sweden.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gudrun asks Gerald in Chapter 30, “Don't you think the understanding of a flea is more interesting than the understanding of a” what?

2. Of Herr Loerke, the narrator says in Chapter 30, “He hated Mestrovic, was not satisfied with” whom?

3. What does Ursula bring to Birkin when she walks back to the car after storming off in Chapter 23?

4. Where does Loerke tell Gudrun to come to and that he has a studio there in Chapter 30?

5. Ursula’s father is described in Chapter 19 as being nearly what age?

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