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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Birkin’s answer in Chapter 11 when Ursula asks him, “Then why do you care about people at all if you don't believe in love? Why do you bother about humanity?”
(a) “Because it will bother about me.”
(b) “Because I feel obligated.”
(c) “Because I can’t get away from it.”
(d) “Because it consumes my soul.”

3. 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 displays a common experience.”
(c) “It conveys a complete truth.”
(d) “It shows people at their most vulnerable.”

4. When Ursula and Rupert Birkin take a punt to the island of the pond in Chapter 11, he says of the “jungle of rank plants,” “I shall mow this down, and then it will be romantic—like” what?
(a) “Romeo and Juliet.”
(b) “Paul et Virginie.”
(c) “Odysseus and Penelope.”
(d) “Cleopatra and Marc Anthony.”

5. By what name is the laborers wife at the mill called in Chapter 12?
(a) Mrs. Kirk.
(b) Mrs. Crich.
(c) Mrs. Varley.
(d) Mrs. Salmon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Halliday’s Hindu servant in Chapter 6?

2. Where does the gatekeeper at the train station say that Gerald Crich bought his horse in Chapter 9?

3. Where does the wedding reception take place in Chapter 2?

4. What is the cat referred to that encounters a stray in Chapter 13?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the bodies found after the party at the Crich estate in Chapter 14?

2. What is symbolized by Gudrun’s incident with Winifred’s rabbit, Bismarck, in Chapter 18?

3. Who falls into the lake at the Crich party in Chapter 14? What is the outcome of this situation?

4. What dispute takes place regarding “love” between Ursula and Birkin in Chapter 13?

5. What information about Gerald’s past does Ursula relate to Gudrun in Chapter 4?

6. How are Gerald and Birkin’s views of the modern world described in Chapter 5?

7. Who do Ursula and Gudrun see leaping into the lake in Chapter 4? What do they remark about the spectacle?

8. What is significant about Hermione’s appearance in Chapter 10?

9. What thoughts consume Birkin as he remains ill and at home in the beginning of Chapter 16?

10. What happens with the Mino cat in Chapter 13? What does this symbolize?

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