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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Flora offer Miriam to wash the curtains?
(a) A pair of earrings.
(b) A necklace.
(c) An old pair of pumps.
(d) Money.

2. How does Seth enter the room?
(a) Limping.
(b) Swaggering.
(c) Stumbling.
(d) Quietly.

3. What is the name of the farm in Howling, Sussex?
(a) Cold Sassy Farm.
(b) Cold Comfort Farm.
(c) Heavenly Comfort Farm.
(d) Coldest Farm of Comfort.

4. In what style does Flora write her letters?
(a) A formal, Victorian style.
(b) In a style most appealing to each individual relative.
(c) A baroque style.
(d) No style.

5. What is Flora wanting to avoid with Mr. Mybug?
(a) Compromising.
(b) Another invitation.
(c) A date.
(d) Debate.

6. How does Adam describe Elfine?
(a) As practical and the mainstay of the farm.
(b) As seventeen and wild, often gone for days at a time to wander the hills.
(c) As bullheaded.
(d) As a will-o-the-wisp.

7. How much money per year do her parents leave her?
(a) Nothing.
(b) 100 pounds.
(c) 2000 pounds.
(d) 500 pounds.

8. What surprises Flora about Mrs. Beetle?
(a) Her civility.
(b) Her accent.
(c) Her education.
(d) Her rudeness.

9. What does Seth like to do in the evenings?
(a) Smoke his pipe on the porch.
(b) Go to the talkies.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Meet a girl behind the haystack.

10. What literary device occurs at the opening to this chapter?
(a) An alliterative string.
(b) The narrative shifts point of view.
(c) A metaphor.
(d) A simile.

11. For what is Mrs. Beetle raising her grandchildren?
(a) To go to college.
(b) To form a circus.
(c) To form a jazz band.
(d) To care for her in her old age.

12. How is Flora feeling?
(a) She feels a sense of dread.
(b) She feels optimistic.
(c) She feels invigorated by the country air.
(d) She feels shy.

13. What does Mr. Mybug suggest to Flora?
(a) That he escort her to the upcoming ball.
(b) A sexual liaison.
(c) A trip to London.
(d) A walk.

14. What is Mr. Mybug's real name?
(a) Myberger.
(b) Bergermeyer.
(c) Bugmeyer.
(d) Meyerburg.

15. Who is Mr. Mybug?
(a) A man Flora encounters at the tea shop.
(b) A man in the Brethren congregation.
(c) Flora's father's best friend.
(d) Flora's former teacher.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Adam try to get out of picking up Flora?

2. Who is one of the relatives Flora contacts?

3. Who does Flora deduce is the father of Miriam's children?

4. Who are the Pioneer-Os?

5. Of what does Amos accuse Flora?

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