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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 Hermione say she’s been away in Chapter 22?
(a) For her health.
(b) To see her father.
(c) To get married.
(d) To perform in a play.

2. What is the title of Chapter 28?
(a) “Gudrun in the Pompadour.”
(b) “Sunday Evening.”
(c) “Flitting.”
(d) “Gladiatorial.”

3. 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 bathtub drain.”
(c) “A car tire.”
(d) “A squirrel cage.”

4. The narrator states in Chapter 24, “When Gudrun heard that Mr. Crich was dead, she felt” what?
(a) “Encouraged.”
(b) “Vindicated.”
(c) “Saddened.”
(d) “Rebuked.”

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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 is the name of the estate belonging to the Crich family?

4. The following phrase from Chapter 29 is an example of what literary technique: “golden like honey of darkness”?

5. Of what historical figure does Gudrun think in Chapter 30, “must have been an artist; she reaped the essential from a man, she harvested the ultimate sensation, and threw away the husk”?

Short Essay Questions

1. What causes the fight between Ursula and Birkin in Chapter 23? What takes place during the fight?

2. How does Gudrun respond to Gerald’s socializing with the Germans at the inn in Hohenhausen in Chapter 29?

3. What is significant about the relationships in the novel as presented through the conversation of Gerald and Birkin in Chapter 25?

4. What gift does Birkin give to Ursula in Chapter 23? Why?

5. What does Gerald do when he encounters Gudrun and Loerke talking in the snow in Chapter 30?

6. What is significant about the encounter between Birkin and Ursula and the Halliday crowd in Chapter 28?

7. How does the relationship between Gudrun and Gerald begin to change after the departure of Ursula and Birkin in Chapter 30?

8. How does Ursula’s father react when she tells her family she will wed Birkin the next day in Chapter 27?

9. How does Ursula respond when Birkin asks her to marry him in front of her father in Chapter 19?

10. What is Birkin’s response to the situation when he and Ursula return to the inn in Chapter 31?

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