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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How much money does Gudrun have “of which nobody knew anything” in Chapter 17?
2. According to the author in Chapter 1, Gudrun and Ursula “both had the remote, virgin look of modern girls, sisters of Artemis rather than of” whom?
3. Gerald Crich’s mother is repeatedly compared to what type of bird in Chapter 17?
4. Where does Birkin day the Pompadour is located in Chapter 5?
5. Ursula thinks of Birkin’s eyes in Chapter 15 as having “such a dark, constant will of” what?
Short Essay Questions
1. How are Gerald and Birkin’s views of the modern world described in Chapter 5?
2. How are the bodies found after the party at the Crich estate in Chapter 14?
3. What information about Gerald’s past does Ursula relate to Gudrun in Chapter 4?
4. What changes does Gerald make in his father’s business in Chapter 17?
5. Who visits Ursula’s classroom in Chapter 3? Why?
6. How does D. H. Lawrence illustrate the miners in Chapter 9? What personal experience of the author’s relates to this depiction?
7. Who falls into the lake at the Crich party in Chapter 14? What is the outcome of this situation?
8. What are Gudrun and Ursula’s impressions of the Crich party when they arrive in Chapter 14? What do they do after arriving there?
9. What happens with the Mino cat in Chapter 13? What does this symbolize?
10. What thoughts consume Birkin as he remains ill and at home in the beginning of Chapter 16?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the Industrial Revolution and its impact on the culture, society, philosophy, and economy of Great Britain. How does author D. H. Lawrence use the coalmines in the story as a symbolic representation of the Industrial Revolution? How does Gerald fit into this depiction?
Essay Topic 2
Describe and discuss the different styles and origins of the artwork described in the Halliday flat in Chapters 6-8. How are the African sculptures described? How common were works of African art in London at this time? Where did the art originate and how is its style defined?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the theme of class distinction in Women in Love. How does each of the main characters (Ursula, Gudrun, Gerald, and Birkin) differ in their viewpoints of class and the lower classes? Do you see Ursula and Gudrun’s distaste for the lower classes as a character fault? Why or why not?
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