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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. Ursula tells Hermione in Chapter 22, “I think it is degrading not to be” what?
(a) “Opinionated.”
(b) “Informed.”
(c) “Happy.”
(d) “Curious.”

2. What is the name of the young man with his pregnant fiancée that Birkin and Ursula give the chair to in the market place in Chapter 26?
(a) Peter.
(b) George.
(c) Fred.
(d) Paul.

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

4. At whose home does Gudrun ask Birkin to stop so she can drop the key off in Chapter 27?
(a) The Mulleys’.
(b) The Coulsons’.
(c) The Peters’.
(d) The Andersons’.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Discussing Loerke, Gerald asks Gudrun in Chapter 30, “What makes you so smitten with that little” what?

2. Gudrun thinks to herself in Chapter 30, “In England it was chic to be perfectly” what?

3. What is the name of Herr Loerke’s companion that asks Gudrun to dance at the inn in Chapter 29?

4. 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”?

5. Where is Gudrun away having a showing of her work in the beginning of Chapter 21?

Short Essay Questions

1. What conversation takes place between Birkin and Ursula by the pond in the beginning of Chapter 19?

2. How does the illness of Mr. Crich influence the atmosphere and actions of the narrative in Chapter 21?

3. How does Ursula’s father react when she tells her family she will wed Birkin the next day in Chapter 27?

4. What does Gudrun remark to Gerald of the sunset in Chapter 30?

5. Who do Ursula, Birkin, Gerald and Gudrun meet at the inn in Hohenhausen in Chapter 29?

6. Where does Ursula first see Birkin in Chapter 19? What is he doing?

7. What is Birkin’s response to the situation when he and Ursula return to the inn in Chapter 31?

8. How is the motif of death relative to Gerald’s character in Women in Love?

9. Why do Ursula and Birkin give away a chair in Chapter 26? To whom do they give the chair?

10. What do Hermione and Ursula discuss when they encounter one another at tea in Chapter 22?

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