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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who does the Professor at the inn say “was giving us a recitation in the Cologne dialect” in Chapter 29?
2. What is the name of the estate belonging to the Crich family?
3. Where does Hermione say she’s been away in Chapter 22?
4. Where does Loerke tell Gudrun to come to and that he has a studio there in Chapter 30?
5. Birkin tells Ursula in Chapter 26, “Now my rooms at the Mill are quite complete, I want them” where?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Gudrun’s response when Loerke asks where she will go next in Chapter 30?
2. What are Ursula’s impressions as she leaves England for Continental Europe in Chapter 29? Where does she meet Gudrun?
3. Why do Ursula and Birkin give away a chair in Chapter 26? To whom do they give the chair?
4. What are Ursula and Gudrun’s impressions of Herr Loerke in Chapter 29?
5. What does Gudrun remark to Gerald of the sunset in Chapter 30?
6. What is significant about the relationships in the novel as presented through the conversation of Gerald and Birkin in Chapter 25?
7. How does the relationship between Gudrun and Gerald begin to change after the departure of Ursula and Birkin in Chapter 30?
8. How is the encounter between Gerald and Gudrun described after the death of Mr. Crich in Chapter 24?
9. What destructive characteristics are foreshadowed in the relationship between Gerald and Gudrun in Chapter 24?
10. How is the motif of death relative to Gerald’s character in Women in Love?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the criticism, banning, and publication problems of Women in Love based on its depiction of sexuality. How many critics have viewed the relationship between Gerald and Birkin as one that is rooted in homosexual desires? How is this sexuality depicted through the narrative in Chapter 20?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss Ursula’s response to the act of sexual passion between her and Birkin in the narrative. How does Ursula feel about Birkin after their night in the car? How have Birkin’s feelings for Ursula changed?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the Industrial Revolution and its impact on the culture, society, philosophy, and economy of Great Britain. How does author D. H. Lawrence use the coalmines in the story as a symbolic representation of the Industrial Revolution? How does Gerald fit into this depiction?
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