I. THE GIRLS AND THE DEMON FOX (l. 1-265)

1)

a: girls;

b: Daylight;

c: Farm;

d: White;

e: together;

f: chickens;

g: well

2)

Things they have in common:

1 Personality traits: gallant, enterprising.

2 Attitude to mistakes on the farm: Life was not made merely to be Slaved away; they disbelived in living for work alone.

3 Hobbies: reading and Cycling. March also loves: painting curvilinear swans on porcelain and cabinet work.

d) As regards March's personality, Lawrence emphasizes her unsureness, whereas Cecily Lambert also emphasizes her cousin's; seemingly contradictory; "mixture of, overwhelming conceit and arrogance allied to a kind of meekness."

4)

 b: conversational; c: adverbs; d: admiration; e: well-informed; f: amused; g: repetition; h: dramatic; i: amused; j: sympathetic; k: beliefs; l: exaggerated; m: mimic

5)  1: d; 2: a; 3: b; 4: c As a very unpleasant situation.

6) A source of worry.

7) a: Bailey; b: homestead; c: ancient; d: edge; e: field; f: hollow; g: hills; h: August; i: brownish; j: green; k: long;

l: pine. C) Despondent (l. 108); alone (l. 110); nothing to keep them up – and no hope (l. 113-114).

8) a: best; b: nervous; c:warm; d: generous; e: absent;f: magnanimity; g: solitude; h: little irritable; i: one another; j: themselves; k: sharply

9)  A)By their surnames. B)It’s amateurish; and their intention to “make a living by poultry” is unrealistic: “things did not turn out well” (l. 5-6). “It didn’t flourish” (l. 60). C) “She would be the man about the place.” (l. 13-14) D) She is delicate. E)In “puttees and breeches” with a “belted coat” and “loose cap”. F)Life was not made merely to be slaved away. Both Banford and March disbelieved in living for work alone. G) Painting porcelain (l. 77-78); cabinet work (l. 79-80); crochet-work (l. 258).H)Curvilinear swans, with green background (l. 77-78). I) In a railway-carriage (l. 96); “a sort of out-house” (l. 97). J) They have accepted financial help from Banford’s father (l. 9-10); and they can adjust realistically to financial

difficulties (l. 98) in a precarious post-war economy. Their limited diet is a reminder that this was a time of food rationing for everyone. K) Banford was afraid of them (l. 245); whereas they made March feel “uncomfortable, and disturbed” and gloomy

(l. 247). L) March speaks to Patty, her favoured hen (l. 58) and Banford speaks “to the fowls” generally (l. 138).

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11)  a: half; b: half; c: actually consciously present; d: consciousness; e: held back

12

A) And.

B) To know sexually.

C)Man; woman.

D)He, her, she.

E)Very repetitive. I.e.: “And he knew her. […] she knew he

knew her […] and […]. He knew her.”

F)All three are important.

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a emotional b logical c psychological d passionately e same f think g touches h interest I pain

15) A)Clearly, B) Lawrence wishes to focus on March’s emotional life – even though this may disorientate some readers.

C) Probably just a few seconds.

D) They seem unending – as though the girls are imprisoned.

16 A: 4; B: 3; C: 5; D: 1; E: 2; F: 6

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 A)They are “dark” and “heavy” (l. 239).

B) Banford listens “to the wind in the pines” (l. 254). It is “a dull, heavy moist wind” (l. 263).

C) It gets dark at 4 pm, though the day has never properly dawned.

D) For the girls it is an “almost continuous darkness that enveloped them” (l. 243).

E) It is dark, sodden, black (l. 252). The rain drips (l. 255).

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a)A real fox has killed some of the hens.

b) The same fox has helped dishearten March and Banford’s attempts at farming.

c)The same fox seems to have awakened something dormant in March, suggesting a divided a self.

II. THE YOUTH AND THE FOX (l. 266-415)

1.

a)

age:             no more than 20

face:            ruddy, roundish

hair:             fairish, rather long

Eyes:           blue and bright

cheeks:        fresh ruddy skin

equipment:    heavy sacks on shoulder

stance:         he stooped, thrusting his head forward

travel:          Canada and Salonika

health:         good

appetite:       he was very hungry

place of birth, upbringing:    Cornish

Previous life at B. Farm:    when he was 12 years old he had come to B. Farm with his grandfather

name:           Henry Grenfel

1.b)

For Banford, Henry is a boy, like her younger brother. For March, he's the fox, has a man's voice, is a young man.

3. a. lifts b. Stood c. opens d. says e. takes f. cries g. said h. said i. starts j. clinging k. stands l. Relaxes  m. thinks n. prepares o. looks p. keeps q. sprawls r. serves s. talks t. eats u. wrinkles

III. A PLEASANT CHAT ABOUT THE FARM (l. 416-542)

1

a)Curious about the girls; exactly.

b)Those of a farm youth.

c)Acute, practical, mocking.

d)Their attitude to their losses.

2

a amusement.

b believe in living for nothing but work, said March.

c laugh.

d ourselves out for land-workers, I suppose.

e March laconically.

f hold on a bit longer yet, said March.

g a plangent, half-sad, half-ironical indifference.

h softly.

i care what you say.

j consider ourselves quite efficient.

k Banford.

l going to do farming you must be at it from morning till

night, and you might as well be a beast yourself.

m We aren’t […] and we know it.

n want some of our time for ourselves.

o scorn.

p silently but thoroughly.

q tickled.

r a better opinion of the nature of fowls then than we

have now.

s nature altogether, I’m afraid.

t delighted laughter.

u out.

v weather.

w yap of laughter, delighted.

x aside her face.

y don’t mind.

z pleased.

3.

a) a. laughter b. Scorn c. Amusement d. Curiosity e. Simplicity f. Pleasure g. Fascination h. charm

b) under Henry's spell

c) She is no longer needing to go after the fox; no longer divided in herself

d) smell

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a)and thoughtful as if she had her own young brother home from France.

b)just the same kind of gratification to attend on him, to get out the bath for him, and everything.

c)had now an outlet.

d) Banford’s sisterly; March was silently working for him too.

IV. MARCH’S FIRST DREAM (l. 543-555)

1

a)

outside.

understand it.

the house; the fields; the darkness.

felt she must weep.

b)

She goes out and suddenly knows it was the fox

she goes nearer but he runs away and ceased singing

She wants to touch him, so she stretches out the hand

He bits her wrist she draws back, but the fox turns around, whisks is brush across her face causing her a fire on her mouth.

c)

It seems to be on fire.

2 hearing; sight; touch.

3 It seems like a distant memory.

V. THE DAY AFTER MARCH’S FIRST DREAM (l. 556-669)

1

a. She flies into the village on her bicycle to try and buy food.

b. By shooting a rabbit and a wild duck. The guns.

c. The glint of Henry's khaki.

d. His way of walking - with his head thrust forward, as if he had a slight curvature of the spine. His look is forwardreaching.

e. The calm way in which he tells them about the accomodation problem, hoping - cunningly - they will invite him to stay longer.

2

a)March only.

b)She feels the same “sly, taunting, knowing spark” leaping from his eyes and falling into her soul as “had fallen from the dark eyes of the fox.”

c)No, because March looks as semi-abstracted as usual.

3

a. It's "as if she were afraid of being imposed upon."

b. Banford invites Henry to stay.

c. Henry adopts a behaviour that makes me think about a person worried about a reaction of somebody, in this case March's reaction.

d. he is voluntarily foxy at point n. 1, and involuntarily at point n.2.

e. this comment is more relevant to  d. 1.

h. What he says and how he says it ("in a soft, courteous voice") is voluntary.

4 a)Charmed by Henry; soft and courteous in speech;

preferring to hear what Banford had to say; not too much.

b)Yes.

c)Henry; March.

5 When watching March, but he also “loves to be out alone with the gun” watching, half hidden  and this is when he’s most free.

VI. HENRY’S THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS (l. 670-734)

1

a)her body: it piques him (it’s like a graceful man’s).

her eyes: they make something rise in his soul – a curious elate excitement, which he tries to hide.

her speech: it makes him laugh outright.

b)Go further – “he was inevitably impelled.” He goes out with the gun.

c)The leaping fire-light.

2

free direct speech:

2) Why not marry March?

3)Why not?

4)Why not indeed?

free indirect speech:

5) It was a good idea.

6)What if it was rather ridiculous?

7)What did it matter?

8)What if she was older than he?

9) It didn’t matter.

10) He was older than she, really.

11) He was master of her.

3

1)shrewdly.

2)arrested.

3)amazement; calculate; acquiescence.

4)subtly.

5)admitted his intention.

6)even from himself.

7)sly; subtle.“the thought entered him,” but then it’s his mind that calculates. Then we are told: “He kept it as a secret even from himself.”

4

"It's all too uncertain yet."

"I'll have to see how things go."

"Yes, I'll have to see how things go."

"If I go to her plainly and say [...], her inevitable answer

will be"

"That's her attitude to men and their ‘tomfoolery '."

"If I'm not careful, she'll turn round on me with her savage, sardonic ridicule, and dismiss me from the farm and from her mind for ever."

"I'll have to go gently."

"I'll have to catch her as you catch a deer or a woodcock when you go out shooting."

6 The narrator seems to take over and speak to the reader directly – in the present tense, though we keep close to Henry’s feelings if not his thoughts.

7 He has a dead rabbit.

8

1 how you feel

2cunning and absolutely fatally ready

3determines the fate

4mesmerise

5profound battle of wills

6escape

7your own fate into the fate

8supreme act of volition

9

1He’s a huntsman – not a farmer, or a soldier.

2He’ll make her his wife.

3She’s as suspicious as a hare.

4“just the nice, odd stranger-youth.”

5 fortnight.

VII.HENRY PROPOSES (l. 735-835)

1 a: shy; b: lightning; c: sudden; d: transfixed; e: paw; f: hears; g: relaxation; h: bending; i: sparks; j: quiver; k: tomfoolery; l: stroking; m: dying; n: transiently; o: mother; p: insistence; q: fire; r: answer; s: marry;t: phosphorescent; u: pain; v: shoulder; w: chin; x: killed; y: cruelly; z: child