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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. What is the title of Chapter 20?
(a) “Gladiatorial.”
(b) “Sunday Evening.”
(c) “Crème de Menthe.”
(d) “Gudrun in the Pompadour.”

2. What sport does Birkin show Gerald the basic moves of in Chapter 20?
(a) Kayaking.
(b) Cricket.
(c) Jiu-jitsu.
(d) Baseball.

3. 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) In two days.
(d) The day after tomorrow.

4. 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”?
(a) Winifred.
(b) Laura.
(c) Basil.
(d) Tilly.

5. According to the author in Chapter 26, there was a jumble in the old market place in town every afternoon on what day of the week?
(a) Monday.
(b) Friday.
(c) Sunday.
(d) Wednesday.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the French word “bagatelle” from Chapter 30 translate to in English?

2. Birkin tells Gerald in Chapter 20, “There are three cures for ennui: sleep, drink,” and what?

3. Who answers the door when Birkin goes to the Brangwen home in Chapter 19?

4. Birkin tells Ursula in Chapter 26, “Now my rooms at the Mill are quite complete, I want them” where?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What do Ursula and Gerald discuss when they see one another after Ursula has married Birkin in Chapter 27?

5. What do Hermione and Ursula discuss when they encounter one another at tea in Chapter 22?

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

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

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

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