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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. Where do Ursula and Birkin drive to have high tea in Chapter 23?
(a) Piccadilly Circus.
(b) Southwell Minster.
(c) Cologne.
(d) Florence.

2. Gerald says his black and green silk robe was a caftan where in Chapter 20?
(a) Peru.
(b) Lebanon.
(c) Bokhara.
(d) Israel.

3. What does the French word “bagatelle” from Chapter 30 translate to in English?
(a) “Dog.”
(b) “Bagel.”
(c) “Potato.”
(d) “Trifle.”

4. What is the title of Chapter 28?
(a) “Gladiatorial.”
(b) “Sunday Evening.”
(c) “Gudrun in the Pompadour.”
(d) “Flitting.”

5. According to the author in Chapter 26, there was a jumble in the old market place in town every afternoon on what day of the week?
(a) Monday.
(b) Sunday.
(c) Friday.
(d) Wednesday.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of the inn that the two couples stay at in Chapter 29, Ursula thinks, “It had reminded Ursula again of home, of the Marsh, of her childhood, and of the journey to Brussels, and, strangely, of” whom?

2. By what nickname does Gudrun frequently call her sister in the novel?

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

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

5. What does Winifred fret over giving Gudrun when she arrives in Chapter 21?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is significant about the relationships in the novel as presented through the conversation of Gerald and Birkin in Chapter 25?

2. How is the encounter between Gerald and Gudrun described after the death of Mr. Crich in Chapter 24?

3. How does the relationship between Gudrun and Gerald begin to change after the departure of Ursula and Birkin in Chapter 30?

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

5. How does Ursula respond when Birkin asks her to marry him in front of her father in Chapter 19?

6. What do Ursula and Gerald discuss when they see one another after Ursula has married Birkin in Chapter 27?

7. What causes the fight between Ursula and Birkin in Chapter 23? What takes place during the fight?

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

9. What destructive characteristics are foreshadowed in the relationship between Gerald and Gudrun in Chapter 24?

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

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