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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) “Search.”
(b) “Tedium.”
(c) “Compromise.”
(d) “Realization.”

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ursula bring to Birkin when she walks back to the car after storming off in Chapter 23?

2. Ursula tells Gudrun in Chapter 29 that “Herr Loerke is doing a great frieze for a factory” where?

3. By what nickname does Mr. Crich call Winifred in Chapter 21?

4. Birkin tells Gerald in Chapter 25, “One should avoid this HOME instinct. It’s not an instinct, it’s a habit of” what?

5. What kind of cap is described in Chapter 29 as “a close brown-velvet head with big brown velvet flaps down over his ears”?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How is the encounter between Gerald and Gudrun described after the death of Mr. Crich in Chapter 24?

4. What is Gudrun’s response when Loerke asks where she will go next in Chapter 30?

5. What are Ursula and Gudrun’s impressions of Herr Loerke in Chapter 29?

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

7. Why do Ursula and Birkin give away a chair in Chapter 26? To whom do they give the chair?

8. Who do Ursula, Birkin, Gerald and Gudrun meet at the inn in Hohenhausen in Chapter 29?

9. How is the motif of death relative to Gerald’s character in Women in Love?

10. What are Ursula’s impressions as she leaves England for Continental Europe in Chapter 29? Where does she meet Gudrun?

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