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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 does Flora do with the help of Mrs. Beetle?
(a) Help Miriam get fitted for birth control.
(b) Let the bull into the pasture.
(c) Gets Seth away from the farm for a few weeks.
(d) Milks two of the cows.

2. Why does Seth rush off?
(a) He wants to meet some woman in the village.
(b) He is chasing the bull that got out of the pasture.
(c) Because he has to catch a train.
(d) So he is not detained by Aunt Ada Doom.

3. What do Richard and Elfine announce at the end of the evening?
(a) That Elfine is expecting.
(b) That Richard and Elfine married two weeks earlier.
(c) Their engagement.
(d) That Elfine is going to be a lady-in-waiting to the queen.

4. Who is meeting Flora and Judith for lunch?
(a) No one.
(b) An artist.
(c) An Austrian doctor.
(d) A lawyer.

5. What does Aunt Ada Doom out the window?
(a) About Seth being in the talkies.
(b) About going mad and not being able to bear it.
(c) About Elfine.
(d) About Seth not catching the bull fast enough.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Flora throw herself into doing?

2. What does Flora want to know from Aunt Ada Doom?

3. Who sends a postcard full of enthusiasm to Cold Comfort Farm?

4. What does Flora send to Judith?

5. To whom does Reuben propose?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Aunt Ada Doom's manipulative efforts symbolic of the change that is occurring to the Starkadder clan?

2. What do you think is the symbolic meaning of Flora having the sukebind removed?

3. What fairy tale does Elfine's debut at the dance seem most like?

4. What actually produces an emotional response from Flora (as opposed to her usual practical nature) and how does Flora deal with the situation?

5. How are Seth's life and Elfine's life similar?

6. What might be the symbolizes of the lights being on when Seth, Elfine and Flora return to Cold Comfort Farm from the ball?

7. How do you think Flora is feeling by the end of the wedding?

8. What is the parallel between Flora and Mr. Neck?

9. How do you think the situation with Flora and the bull is symbolic of Flora with the lives of the Starkadders?

10. What is ironic about the scene with Urk and Miriam?

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