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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. The narrator states in Chapter 30, “When Ursula had gone, Gudrun felt her own existence had become” what?
(a) “Raw and sensitive.”
(b) “Stark and elemental.”
(c) “Bright and free.”
(d) “Lonely and mournful.”

2. Winifred leaves for a few days in London with whom after her father’s funeral in Chapter 24?
(a) Palestra.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Laura.
(d) Hermione.

3. Of Gerald, the narrator states in Chapter 25, “There was a numbness upon him, a numbness either of unborn, absent volition, or of” what?
(a) “Sensuality.”
(b) “Vulgarity.”
(c) “Masculinity.”
(d) “Atrophy.”

4. Gudrun says that Fanny Bath is “frightfully in love” with what painter in Chapter 29?
(a) Thomas Crich.
(b) William Brangwen.
(c) Lloyd George.
(d) Billy McFarlane.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Imagining a future for Gerald, Gudrun thinks in Chapter 29, “He would be a Napoleon of peace, or” whom?

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

3. How many rings does Birkin give to Ursula when he asks her to take a drive with him in Chapter 23?

4. At whose home does Gudrun ask Birkin to stop so she can drop the key off in Chapter 27?

5. Ursula tells Hermione in Chapter 22, “I think it is degrading not to be” what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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