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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Tom find hard to bear when he thinks about Mrs. Lensky?
(a) He can't bear that she is six years older than he is.
(b) He can't stand that she has a daughter.
(c) He can't bear that she was married before.
(d) He can't stand that they are complete strangers to each other.

4. What is Anna's initial reaction when the eleven men start singing in the garden of the cottage, outside Anna and Will's window?
(a) Sadness
(b) Amusement
(c) Embarrassment
(d) Fear

5. When does a darkness and dread come over Lydia's mind?
(a) At the start of the war
(b) When she marries Paul Lensky
(c) After her two children die of diphtheria
(d) When she becomes a nurse

Short Answer Questions

1. Who invites Anna and William to visit them in Briswell?

2. Where does Tom take Anna as she hysterically cries for her mother?

3. Whose imminent visit from Nottingham excites the 18-year-old Anna?

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

5. Why does William begin to hate Anna as she talks to him about the carvings in the cathedral?

(see the answer key)

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