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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Anna react as she sits at the bar while Tom goes to sell his cow at the cattle market?
(a) She likes talking to all the men at the market.
(b) She enjoys all the men, smells, and noise around her.
(c) She feels grown up and hopes Tom will stay away for a while.
(d) She feels alone and thinks Tom will never come back to get her.

2. What does Brangwen find to replace the desires he has for his wife?
(a) He becomes closer to Anna and drinks more.
(b) He spends all his time at the bar.
(c) He works day and night.
(d) He reads throughout the night.

3. How does Tom feel as he watches his wife in the pain of childbirth?
(a) He wishes they weren't having a baby.
(b) He just wants it to be over.
(c) His heart is tortured, yet he is at peace.
(d) He is indifferent to her moans of pain.

4. 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.

5. What is the bitter lesson Tom learns after his son is born?
(a) He does not want Lydia as much as he used to.
(b) Lydia does not want him ever again.
(c) He wants to be with other women.
(d) Lydia does not want him as much as he wants her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the reason Tom Brangwen's wife believes the vicar's children are seen as superior to her own?

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

3. How does Tom feel about himself after meeting Alfred's lover, the lady, Mrs. Forbes?

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

5. What is Anna's initial reaction to her mother's marriage to Tom?

(see the answer key)

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