Q 01/05

What did the initials D. H. stand for in D. H. Lawrence's name?

A) David Herbert

B) Daniel Henry

C) Douglas Harold

D) Dennis Hugh

Answer · why

A) David Herbert

David Herbert. He disliked David all his life and as a schoolboy would not own up to it, even when the master raged that it was the name of a great an...

Q 02/05

Lawrence was born in 1885 in the town of Eastwood, in which English county?

A) Yorkshire

B) Derbyshire

C) Nottinghamshire

D) Staffordshire

Answer · why

C) Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire. He left home at 23 and lived his last ten years abroad, yet he went on setting his fiction in the fields and woods around Eastwood, w...

Q 03/05

What was the occupation of Lawrence's father, Arthur?

A) Coal miner

B) Schoolmaster

C) Methodist minister

D) Railway clerk

Answer · why

A) Coal miner

Coal miner. Arthur's drinking and the rows it caused set his son against him: the boy in Sons and Lovers, drawn from Lawrence's own childhood, prays, ...

Q 04/05

Lawrence's celebrated 1911 short story about a wife waiting for her husband to come home is called 'Odour of' what?

A) Honeysuckle

B) Wallflowers

C) Chrysanthemums

D) Hyacinths

Answer · why

C) Chrysanthemums

Chrysanthemums. Lawrence liked the plot enough to tell it twice: the wife who waits all evening, and learns why her husband is late, returns in his pl...

Q 05/05

Before becoming a full-time writer, Lawrence worked in which profession, including a spell in Croydon?

A) Bank clerk

B) Teacher

C) Journalist

D) Solicitor's clerk

Answer · why

B) Teacher

Teacher. He taught boys in Croydon for three years, until pneumonia nearly killed him late in 1911; warned not to go back to the classroom, he decided...