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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. What is the title of Chapter 23?

2. Birkin tells Ursula in Chapter 19, “I wouldn't give a straw for your female ego—it's” what?

3. The narrator says in Chapter 30 that Gudrun and Loerke “talked in a mixture of languages. The ground-work was” what?

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

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Gudrun respond to Gerald’s socializing with the Germans at the inn in Hohenhausen in Chapter 29?

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

4. What is Ursula’s impression of the photo of artwork of Loerke’s shown to her in Chapter 29?

5. What gift does Birkin give to Ursula in Chapter 23? Why?

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

7. Where do Ursula and Gudrun go together in Chapter 27? What do they discuss while there?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the characters of Rupert Birkin and Hermione Roddice in Chapters 1-4. What is illustrated of Birkin and Hermione’s relationship when they visit Ursula at the school? How does Ursula feel about each of these characters? How does their relationship change in the course of the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the theme of the meaning of love in the novel. What does Birkin define “love” as? How does his definition differ with that of Ursula? How do Gudrun and Gerald each define love and its meaning? With which character(s) do you most agree? Why?

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