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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. Loerke says to Gudrun in Chapter 30, “Women and love – there is no greater” what?
(a) “Realization.”
(b) “Tedium.”
(c) “Compromise.”
(d) “Search.”

2. Birkin tells Gerald in Chapter 25, “One should avoid this HOME instinct. It’s not an instinct, it’s a habit of” what?
(a) “Comfort.”
(b) “Cowardliness.”
(c) “Familiarity.”
(d) “Distraction.”

3. Where do Ursula and Birkin depart the train for their hotel in Chapter 29?
(a) Cologne.
(b) Basle.
(c) Hohenhausen.
(d) Florence.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Gudrun and Gerald set off for, where they will meet Ursula and Birkin in Chapter 28?

2. What sport is Gerald said to love but that Gudrun does not practice in Chapter 30?

3. Where do Ursula and Birkin drive to have high tea in Chapter 23?

4. The narrator states in Chapter 30, “When Ursula had gone, Gudrun felt her own existence had become” what?

5. Who does the Professor at the inn say “was giving us a recitation in the Cologne dialect” in Chapter 29?

Short Essay Questions

1. What decision do Ursula and Birkin make after having tea at Southwell Minster in Chapter 23?

2. How does the illness of Mr. Crich influence the atmosphere and actions of the narrative in Chapter 21?

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

4. What does Gudrun remark to Gerald of the sunset in Chapter 30?

5. What is related in the letter that Gudrun receives in the beginning of Chapter 21?

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

7. What is Ursula’s impression of the photo of artwork of Loerke’s shown to her in Chapter 29?

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

9. What destructive characteristics are foreshadowed in the relationship between Gerald and Gudrun in Chapter 24?

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

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