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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. What is the title of Chapter 20?

2. Where is Gudrun away having a showing of her work in the beginning of Chapter 21?

3. Birkin tells Ursula in Chapter 19, “I wouldn't give a straw for your female ego—it's” what?

4. Why does Hermione say she’s been away in Chapter 22?

5. 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”?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What conversation takes place between Birkin and Ursula by the pond in the beginning of Chapter 19?

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

5. What does Gudrun remark to Gerald of the sunset in Chapter 30?

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

7. What is Birkin’s response to the situation when he and Ursula return to the inn in Chapter 31?

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

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

10. What is significant about the encounter between Birkin and Ursula and the Halliday crowd in Chapter 28?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the characters of Rupert Birkin and Hermione Roddice in Chapters 1-4. What is illustrated of Birkin and Hermione’s relationship when they visit Ursula at the school? How does Ursula feel about each of these characters? How does their relationship change in the course of the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the character of Winifred Crich in the novel. How old is Winifred? Why is Winifred described as unique amongst children her age? What is Winifred’s relationship with her parents and siblings like?

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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