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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Birkin exclaims to Ursula in the marketplace in Chapter 26, “It is all possessions, possessions, bullying you and turning you into” what?
(a) “A standardization.”
(b) “A statistic.”
(c) “A generalization.”
(d) “An anomaly.”

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

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

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

6. What sport does Birkin show Gerald the basic moves of in Chapter 20?
(a) Jiu-jitsu.
(b) Kayaking.
(c) Cricket.
(d) Baseball.

7. At whose home does Gudrun ask Birkin to stop so she can drop the key off in Chapter 27?
(a) The Peters’.
(b) The Mulleys’.
(c) The Andersons’.
(d) The Coulsons’.

8. The following phrase from Chapter 29 is an example of what literary technique: “golden like honey of darkness”?
(a) Assonance.
(b) Literary allusion.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Simile.

9. Ursula’s father is described in Chapter 19 as being nearly what age?
(a) 80.
(b) 65.
(c) 50.
(d) 60.

10. Where does Hermione say she’s been away in Chapter 22?
(a) Aix.
(b) Basle.
(c) Bokhara.
(d) Ostend.

11. Who dies in the end of Women in Love?
(a) Gerald.
(b) Ursula.
(c) Gudrun.
(d) Birkin.

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

13. The narrator states in Chapter 30, “All these things, however, riches, pride of social standing, handsome physique, were” what?
(a) “Distractions.”
(b) “Secondary.”
(c) “Irrelevant.”
(d) “Externals.”

14. Gerald says his black and green silk robe was a caftan where in Chapter 20?
(a) Peru.
(b) Bokhara.
(c) Lebanon.
(d) Israel.

15. Of Herr Loerke, the narrator says in Chapter 30, “He hated Mestrovic, was not satisfied with” whom?
(a) “The Absurdists.”
(b) “The Dadaists.”
(c) “The Surrealists.”
(d) “The Futurists.”

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. Gudrun says that Fanny Bath is “frightfully in love” with what painter in Chapter 29?

4. What is the name of the estate belonging to the Crich family?

5. Of Gerald, the narrator states in Chapter 25, “There was a numbness upon him, a numbness either of unborn, absent volition, or of” what?

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