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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who jumps in to save Gerald’s sister from drowning in Chapter 14?
(a) Hermione.
(b) Dr. Foxglove.
(c) Dr. Brindell.
(d) Gudrun.

2. What is the name of Birkin’s friend who has a crowd of hangers-on in London?
(a) Palmer.
(b) Halliday.
(c) Maxim.
(d) Basil.

3. According to the author in Chapter 1, Gudrun and Ursula “both had the remote, virgin look of modern girls, sisters of Artemis rather than of” whom?
(a) “Hebe.”
(b) “Cala.”
(c) “Midi.”
(d) “Tovo.”

4. Who is described as the only one of his children that Gerald’s father had loved in Chapter 17?
(a) Birkin.
(b) Gerald.
(c) Laura.
(d) Winifred.

5. What is the title of Chapter 15?
(a) “Rabbit.”
(b) “Crème de Menthe.”
(c) “Sunday Evening.”
(d) “Threshold.”

6. Pussum tells Gerald when they meet in Chapter 6 that she’s not afraid of anything except for what?
(a) Brown bats.
(b) Red spiders.
(c) Black beetles.
(d) Gray sharks.

7. Who is described in Chapter 8 as “a learned, dry Baronet of fifty, who was always making witticisms and laughing at them heartily in a harsh, horse-laugh”?
(a) Miss Bradley.
(b) Mrs. Salmon.
(c) Miss Inglis.
(d) Mrs. Varley.

8. What is the title of Chapter 10?
(a) “A Chair.”
(b) “Sketch-Book.”
(c) “Carpeting.”
(d) “Diver.”

9. What word from Chapter 9 refers to a coalmine, including all the buildings and equipment?
(a) Colliery.
(b) Carabineer.
(c) Catalytic.
(d) Minstrel.

10. The woman who sells honey to Gudrun in Chapter 17 tells her that she left being a servant in the Crich household when Gerald was how old?
(a) 4 years old.
(b) 1 and a half years old.
(c) 5 and a half years old.
(d) 3 years old.

11. Ursula and Gudrun are having a discussion in their father’s house located where in Chapter 1?
(a) Jacobs.
(b) Matthews.
(c) Lennon.
(d) Beldover.

12. Gudrun asks Gerald in Chapter 14 if he’s ever been on a steamer from Westminster Bridge to where?
(a) Cologne.
(b) Beldover.
(c) Derbyshire.
(d) Richmond.

13. How does Gerald say he injured his hand in Chapter 14?
(a) Playing croquet.
(b) A horse bit it.
(c) He fell down a flight of stairs.
(d) He caught it in some machinery.

14. Breadalby is described as a house of what architectural style?
(a) Georgian.
(b) Roman.
(c) Japanese.
(d) Greek.

15. Who tells Gerald Crich that she hated him for how he treated his horse the other day in Chapter 12?
(a) Gudrun.
(b) Hermione.
(c) Elizabeth.
(d) Ursula.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the gatekeeper at the train station say that Gerald Crich bought his horse in Chapter 9?

2. What kind of sandwiches do Ursula and Gudrun eat during their picnic by the lake in Chapter 14?

3. Breadalby is described in Chapter 8 as “standing among the softer, greener hills of” where?

4. When Ursula and Rupert Birkin take a punt to the island of the pond in Chapter 11, he says of the “jungle of rank plants,” “I shall mow this down, and then it will be romantic—like” what?

5. By what name is the laborers wife at the mill called in Chapter 12?

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