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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Lydia and Tom discover about each other after two years of marriage?
(a) They find fulfillment in each other.
(b) They discover they do not love one another.
(c) They find they will never know one another.
(d) They realize they do not belong together.

2. What is Tom's attitude toward his own life while his wife is miserable?
(a) He is moody and miserable too.
(b) He is always happy.
(c) He keeps the pain at the bottom of his heart and enjoys his life.
(d) He doesn't care that his wife is in misery.

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

4. How does Lydia act toward Tom when she becomes pregnant?
(a) She is constantly talking about the new baby.
(b) She becomes silent and distant.
(c) She wants to be with Tom constantly.
(d) She is full of life and laughter.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do Anna and Will react as the men continue singing in the garden?

3. How does Anna react to her parent's relationship?

4. Where have generations of Brangwens lived?

5. What does Tom crave more than ever from his wife?

(see the answer key)

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