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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 vision the author gives of life if one looks at the Resurrection as life, not death?

2. What does Mr. Harby give to Ursula on her last day of school?

3. How does Ursula feel as she waits for Anton to come home?

4. How does Christian life affect the Brangwens?

5. What does Ursula wish as she swims with her swimming class mistress?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the circumstances of Tom Brangwen's death.

2. Explain Ursula's plans for her future when she discovers that she is pregnant.

3. Explain the realization that Ursula comes to as she passes from childhood into womanhood.

4. What does Anton Skrebensky believe is the responsibility of every person?

5. Summarize Ursula's attitude and duties as the eldest child of Anna and William Brangwen.

6. Explain why Ursula keeps up with her studies, despite the dreary work.

7. Why doesn't Mr. Harby, the schoolmaster, like Ursula Brangwen?

8. What is the response Anton gives to Ursula when she tells him she does not want to get married?

9. As Ursula continues to teach, how does her attitude toward education change?

10. What does Ursula decide Winifred should do after they are no longer lovers?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Analyze the resolution of the story as it relates to each of the characters in the novel.

2) Explain the metamorphosis each of them experiences by the final chapter.

3) What major life lessons have they learned?

Essay Topic 2

1) Write an introduction to the novel discussing D.H. Lawrence's writing style, use of dialogue, similes, metaphors, imagery, and point of view of the characters.

2) How do these literary elements affect the story?

Essay Topic 3

1) Discuss how Ursula Brangwen grows as a character from the beginning of the novel to the end.

2) How do her attitudes change toward William, Uncle Tom, Winifred and Anna?

3) How does her attitude about her quest for freedom change throughout the novel?

4) What are the differences in her attitude toward the meaning of life from the beginning to the end of the novel?

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