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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. Where do Ursula and Birkin depart the train for their hotel in Chapter 29?

2. What dance is described in Chapter 29 as “the Tyrolese dance of the clapping hands and tossing the partner in the air at the crisis”?

3. After Gudrun announces to Loerke that she and Gerald aren’t married in Chapter 30, Gerald gets up and goes to discuss what writer and artist?

4. Where does Hermione say she will go for the winter while having tea at Birkin’s in Chapter 22?

5. Gerald says his black and green silk robe was a caftan where in Chapter 20?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What causes the fight between Ursula and Birkin in Chapter 23? What takes place during the fight?

4. What decision do Ursula and Birkin make after having tea at Southwell Minster in Chapter 23?

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

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

7. How does the illness of Mr. Crich influence the atmosphere and actions of the narrative in Chapter 21?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss narrative style of the novel. Is the story related in first, second, or third person? Is it told in the present or past tense? Is the narrator’s perspective omniscient or limited? What effect does the novel’s narrative voice have on the reader?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the criticism, banning, and publication problems of Women in Love based on its depiction of sexuality. How many critics have viewed the relationship between Gerald and Birkin as one that is rooted in homosexual desires? How is this sexuality depicted through the narrative in Chapter 20?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss the setting of the novel as established in the first chapters. Where in England is the Brangwen homestead? How does the author describe this setting? What were the political, economic, and cultural atmospheres like in England at this time historically? How are these environmental aspects depicted in the story?

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