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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gudrun teach Winifred in the novel?
(a) Sewing and decorating.
(b) Ballet and acting.
(c) Piano lessons.
(d) Drawing and sculpting.

2. What does the French word “bagatelle” from Chapter 30 translate to in English?
(a) “Trifle.”
(b) “Dog.”
(c) “Bagel.”
(d) “Potato.”

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

4. Winifred leaves for a few days in London with whom after her father’s funeral in Chapter 24?
(a) Palestra.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Laura.
(d) Hermione.

5. Where do Birkin and Ursula stop to spend the night in the car in Chapter 23?
(a) Shortlands.
(b) Hohenhausen.
(c) Sherwood Forest.
(d) Willey Water.

6. With what friend does Hermione say she will stay with for the winter in Chapter 22?
(a) Rosalind.
(b) Palestra.
(c) Laura.
(d) Diana.

7. What is the title of Chapter 20?
(a) “Sunday Evening.”
(b) “Gudrun in the Pompadour.”
(c) “Crème de Menthe.”
(d) “Gladiatorial.”

8. What nurse comes and summons Gerald to the dining room to speak with the doctor after dinner in Chapter 24?
(a) Miss Laura.
(b) Miss Palmer.
(c) Miss Inglis.
(d) Miss Monterey.

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

10. When Ursula tells Hermione that Birkin wants her to sink herself and not to have any being of her own, Hermione responds, “Then why doesn’t he marry” what?
(a) “An odalisk.”
(b) “An invalid.”
(c) “A mime.”
(d) “A concubine.”

11. Birkin tells Ursula in Chapter 19, “I hate ecstasy, Dionysic or any other. It's like going round in” what?
(a) “A Ferris wheel.”
(b) “A squirrel cage.”
(c) “A car tire.”
(d) “A bathtub drain.”

12. What kind of cap is described in Chapter 29 as “a close brown-velvet head with big brown velvet flaps down over his ears”?
(a) A newsboy cap.
(b) A fedora.
(c) A beret.
(d) A Westphalian cap.

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

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

15. Of Gerald, the narrator states in Chapter 25, “There was a numbness upon him, a numbness either of unborn, absent volition, or of” what?
(a) “Masculinity.”
(b) “Vulgarity.”
(c) “Atrophy.”
(d) “Sensuality.”

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator states in Chapter 30, “All these things, however, riches, pride of social standing, handsome physique, were” what?

2. What is Herr Loerke’s answer when Gudrun asks him in Chapter 29, “And do you think then that art should serve industry?”

3. Herr Loerke says in Chapter 30, “The English, I thought they were so” what?

4. What is the title of Chapter 26?

5. What two words does the narrator say that from Ursula always drove her father mad in Chapter 27?

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