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

2. What is the name of the estate belonging to the Crich family?
(a) Grasslands.
(b) Scrublands.
(c) Wetlands.
(d) Shortlands.

3. 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”?
(a) Medusa.
(b) Cleopatra.
(c) Mary Magdalene.
(d) Eve.

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

5. Imagining a future for Gerald, Gudrun thinks in Chapter 29, “He would be a Napoleon of peace, or” whom?
(a) “Bismarck.”
(b) “Darwin.”
(c) “Columbus.”
(d) “Cortez.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Birkin exclaims to Ursula in the marketplace in Chapter 26, “It is all possessions, possessions, bullying you and turning you into” what?

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

3. What does Gudrun teach Winifred in the novel?

4. Gudrun asks Gerald in Chapter 30, “Don't you think the understanding of a flea is more interesting than the understanding of a” what?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Where do Ursula and Gudrun go together in Chapter 27? What do they discuss while there?

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

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

6. Where does Ursula first see Birkin in Chapter 19? What is he doing?

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

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

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

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

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