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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who dies in the end of Women in Love?
(a) Ursula.
(b) Birkin.
(c) Gerald.
(d) Gudrun.

2. Where does Loerke tell Gudrun to come to and that he has a studio there in Chapter 30?
(a) Ostend.
(b) Dresden.
(c) Nottingham.
(d) Innsbruck.

3. Gudrun thinks to herself in Chapter 30, “In England it was chic to be perfectly” what?
(a) “Adorable.”
(b) “Educated.”
(c) “Spoken.”
(d) “Ordinary.”

4. What does the following German phrase from Chapter 30 translate to in English: “Soll ich Fraulein sagen?”
(a) “What do you mean to say?”
(b) “Tell me the truth.”
(c) “You can’t be serious.”
(d) “I am shocked.”

5. According to the narrator in Chapter 29, Ursula had not felt herself after the meeting with her parents and “did not really come to until she was on the ship crossing from Dover to” where?
(a) Breadalby.
(b) Aix.
(c) Ostend.
(d) Beldover.

6. Ursula’s father is described in Chapter 19 as being nearly what age?
(a) 80.
(b) 65.
(c) 60.
(d) 50.

7. What is the name of Birkin’s landlady who answers the door to Ursula in Chapter 27?
(a) Mrs. Kirk.
(b) Miss Bradley.
(c) Mrs. Salmon.
(d) Mrs. Varley.

8. Birkin tells Gerald in Chapter 20, “There are three cures for ennui: sleep, drink,” and what?
(a) “Thought.”
(b) “Food.”
(c) “Prayer.”
(d) “Travel.”

9. The narrator states in Chapter 24, “When Gudrun heard that Mr. Crich was dead, she felt” what?
(a) “Encouraged.”
(b) “Vindicated.”
(c) “Rebuked.”
(d) “Saddened.”

10. How many rings does Birkin give to Ursula when he asks her to take a drive with him in Chapter 23?
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

11. What is the title of Chapter 20?
(a) “Gudrun in the Pompadour.”
(b) “Gladiatorial.”
(c) “Sunday Evening.”
(d) “Crème de Menthe.”

12. After Gudrun announces to Loerke that she and Gerald aren’t married in Chapter 30, Gerald gets up and goes to discuss what writer and artist?
(a) Goethe.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Mozart.
(d) Picasso.

13. What dance is described in Chapter 29 as “the Tyrolese dance of the clapping hands and tossing the partner in the air at the crisis”?
(a) The Polka.
(b) The Waltz.
(c) The Landler.
(d) The Schuhplatteln.

14. Loerke says to Gudrun in Chapter 30, “Women and love – there is no greater” what?
(a) “Search.”
(b) “Tedium.”
(c) “Realization.”
(d) “Compromise.”

15. What does Ursula’s father do during the argument after she announces she will get married tomorrow in Chapter 27?
(a) He slaps her.
(b) He calls his mother.
(c) He storms out of the house.
(d) He gives her a kiss.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of Gerald, the narrator states in Chapter 25, “There was a numbness upon him, a numbness either of unborn, absent volition, or of” what?

2. What servant does Ursula recall in Chapter 29, “who used to give her bread and butter sprinkled with brown sugar, in the old living-room where the grandfather clock had two pink roses in a basket painted above the figures on the face”?

3. Where does Hermione say she will go for the winter while having tea at Birkin’s in Chapter 22?

4. Birkin exclaims to Ursula in the marketplace in Chapter 26, “It is all possessions, possessions, bullying you and turning you into” what?

5. What kind of cap is described in Chapter 29 as “a close brown-velvet head with big brown velvet flaps down over his ears”?

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