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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 29.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Birkin says he’ll quit his job and live without humanity in Chapter 11, Ursula asks him if he has enough money to live on. How much does Birkin respond that he receives per year?
(a) 250 pounds.
(b) 1,200 pounds.
(c) 400 pounds.
(d) 650 pounds.

2. Birkin tells Ursula in Chapter 26, “Now my rooms at the Mill are quite complete, I want them” where?
(a) “Beside the bay.”
(b) “Overlooking the river.”
(c) “At the bottom of the sea.”
(d) “On top of the mountain.”

3. What is the cat referred to that encounters a stray in Chapter 13?
(a) The Theo cat.
(b) The Mino cat.
(c) The Berry cat.
(d) The Harp cat.

4. What is Birkin’s answer in Chapter 11 when Ursula asks him, “Then why do you care about people at all if you don't believe in love? Why do you bother about humanity?”
(a) “Because I can’t get away from it.”
(b) “Because it will bother about me.”
(c) “Because it consumes my soul.”
(d) “Because I feel obligated.”

5. What is the title of Chapter 24?
(a) “Sketch-Book.”
(b) “Death and Love.”
(c) “Gladiatorial.”
(d) “Excurse.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Ursula thinks of Birkin’s eyes in Chapter 15 as having “such a dark, constant will of” what?

2. Of the African sculpture of a woman giving birth, Gerald asks “Why is it art?” What is Birkin’s reply?

3. When Gerald awakens to find Halliday and others sitting naked by the fire in Chapter 7, he compares Halliday as being “like Christ in a” what?

4. The narrator says of Birkin in Chapter 16, “He wanted sex to revert to the level of the other appetites, to be regarded as a functional process, not as” what?

5. Rupert Birkin tells Ursula in Chapter 11, “Man is one of the mistakes of creation—like” what?

(see the answer key)

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