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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is William's reaction when he steps through the doors of the cathedral?
(a) His soul soars up into the church.
(b) He doesn't feel any emotion.
(c) He is impressed with the murals.
(d) He is disappointed by the architecture.

2. What is the description of the relationship between Anna and William in this chapter?
(a) It is full of love and conflict.
(b) It is an equal partnership.
(c) It is carefree and loving.
(d) It is full of humor and longing.

3. As Anna observes the Skrebensky's relationship, what does she wish for herself?
(a) She wants to be as one person with William.
(b) She wants her own life, not absorbed by William.
(c) She wishes she and William were closer.
(d) She wishes William was more dominant.

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

5. What do Anna and William go to see that excites him so much?
(a) Westminster Abbey
(b) The Thames
(c) Lincoln Cathedral
(d) The Tower of London

6. What is Anna's emotional response to the cathedral?
(a) She finally agrees with William's passion for the church.
(b) She is in awe, but prefers the freedom of the sky.
(c) She feels God is alive at the altar.
(d) She wants to remain in its confines forever.

7. How do Anna's temperament and William's temperament complement one another?
(a) She is the rain. He is the sunshine.
(b) She is sunlight. He is darkness.
(c) She is the storm. He is the calm.
(d) She is arrogant. He is humble.

8. What does Anna find refreshing about the Skrebensky's relationship?
(a) They always hold hands.
(b) They are free in their isolation and detachment from one another.
(c) They smile at one another intimately.
(d) They are as one person, totally involved with each other.

9. How does Anna react to her parent's relationship?
(a) She ignores both parents.
(b) She finds peace and can be a child now.
(c) She resents the relationship.
(d) She feels alone and unsafe.

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

11. What does Tom see in the loft of the barn that distresses him, making him feel like an old man?
(a) His gray haired wife, shooing the owls away
(b) Rotted timbers that need to be replaced
(c) Anna and Will in each other's arms, kissing
(d) His thirteen year old dog, dead in the hay

12. William comes home from the park a changed man. How does Anna react to this new side of her husband?
(a) She is enthralled by his new strangeness.
(b) She is afraid of him.
(c) She tells him to get out.
(d) She ignores him completely.

13. What is the question William asks himself when he and Anna are constantly tormenting one another?
(a) Why can't he leave her?
(b) What gift can he get for Anna?
(c) How can he be nicer to Anna?
(d) Will the baby bring them together?

14. What is it about Anna that leaves William unsatisfied and unfulfilled?
(a) Her pregnancy
(b) Her flowery innocence
(c) Her ugly nature
(d) Her maturity

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tom say a man's soul and a woman's soul united in marriage becomes?

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

3. What is the first woodworking gift Will gives to Anna?

4. 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?

5. What would happen to the women of Cossethay if the vicar, Lord William, and Mrs. Hardy were taken away from them?

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