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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Alfred tell Tom every person must do?
(a) Everyone needs other people
(b) No one can be happy alone.
(c) Be happy to have a wife to go through life with
(d) Go on with life by yourself

2. Whose imminent visit from Nottingham excites the 18-year-old Anna?
(a) Her Uncle Alfred
(b) Her cousin Will
(c) Her friend, Tilly
(d) Her real father

3. What do Tom, Alfred, Frank, the brother-in-law, William's brother, and six other men decide to do after Anna and Will leave for their cottage?
(a) They decide to have wrestling matches.
(b) They decide to go to the cottage and sing a carol.
(c) They decide to go to the pub for a drink.
(d) They decide to have a horse race.

4. What does everyone at the wedding party get excited over, shouting and applauding?
(a) Tom and his wife dance in the middle of the parlor.
(b) The men act out the mystery play of St. George.
(c) Anna and will have the first dance.
(d) Anna and William are about to leave.

5. How successful is Tom Brangwen at his school studies?
(a) His brain is slow, hopeless, and good for nothing.
(b) He is above average in all his studies
(c) He is at the top of his class in mathematics
(d) He is the best reader in the class.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Lydia emerge from her indifference, becoming a new person?

2. When does Tom find the end of youth's passionate desire, losing his individuality?

3. How does Anna react as she sits at the bar while Tom goes to sell his cow at the cattle market?

4. What is Tom contemplating as he stands at the altar with Anna on her wedding day?

5. What is Anna's initial reaction when the eleven men start singing in the garden of the cottage, outside Anna and Will's window?

(see the answer key)

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