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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Tom's reaction to Lydia after they are married and the guests leave?
(a) He is ecstatic with joy and cannot wait to hold her.
(b) He is indifferent to his new wife.
(c) He is rough and cruel to her.
(d) He is terrified at her strangeness and cannot meet her eyes.

2. How does Lydia emerge from her indifference, becoming a new person?
(a) She falls in love with the vicar.
(b) She decides to move back to Poland.
(c) She lives through her daughter.
(d) She meets Tom Brangwen in Cossethay.

3. What do Paul, a young doctor, and Lydia Lensky, a nurse, represent in Poland?
(a) The new movement begun in Russia
(b) The joys of marriage
(c) The obedience of Polish citizens
(d) A traditional Polish couple

4. Where is Anna's favorite place to stop on the way to the cattle market?
(a) Nottingham
(b) London
(c) Derby
(d) Glasgow

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the care of the farm fall upon Tom's shoulders when he is eighteen?

2. When does a darkness and dread come over Lydia's mind?

3. What does Tom find hard to bear when he thinks about Mrs. Lensky?

4. What does Tom see in the loft of the barn that distresses him, making him feel like an old man?

5. How does Tom feel about his new son?

(see the answer key)

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