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

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. How does Anna feel about Tom after the baby is born?
(a) She wants to move away from him with her mother and the baby.
(b) She still resents him.
(c) She ignores him.
(d) She grows to love him, spending more time with him.

3. What type of child is Gudrun?
(a) She is quiet, mild-mannered, but indomitable.
(b) She is slow and meek.
(c) She is volatile and quick tempered.
(d) She is active, and athletic.

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

5. How does Tom think his brother Alfred feels about him?
(a) Sees him as a child
(b) Despises him a little
(c) Loves him
(d) Favors him over Frank

6. How does Anna feel about herself as she drives to the wedding with her father?
(a) She is ecstatic, feeling lovely and flamboyant.
(b) She is embarrassed by her father's crassness.
(c) She feels ugly and inferior.
(d) She is nervous and self-conscious.

7. What lesson about life did Ursula learn at an early age after her father insults her for stepping in the seed beds?
(a) She learned to rely on her sisters.
(b) She learned to harden herself from the outside world.
(c) She learned to go to her mother for sympathy.
(d) She learned to obey her father.

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

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

10. Who dominates the whole wedding party?
(a) Lydia Brangwen
(b) Tom, Alfred, and Frank Brangwen
(c) Alfred Brangwen's wife
(d) Anna and William

11. How does Tom feel about his new son?
(a) He adores his new son and wants to hold him constantly.
(b) He wishes he had a baby girl instead.
(c) He loves his son more than his step-daughter, Anna.
(d) He loves Anna more than his own son.

12. 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 wants to remain in its confines forever.
(d) She feels God is alive at the altar.

13. What is Lydia's mental state in the last few months of her pregnancy?
(a) She is spending more time with Tom.
(b) She is always singing and sewing.
(c) She is depressed, cries, and doesn't want Tom near her.
(d) She is looking forward to the baby's birth.

14. Why does the care of the farm fall upon Tom's shoulders when he is eighteen?
(a) His father feels he is ready to take on the responsibility
(b) His brother, Alfred, tells his he has to do the farming.
(c) His father falls off the stack, breaking his neck.
(d) His mother forces him to do the farming.

15. Who does Tom believe he is destined to marry?
(a) The Polish widow, Mrs. Lensky
(b) Anna
(c) Tilly's sister
(d) The vicar's daughter

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Will react to Anna's preparations for a tea party?

2. How does Anna feel about people she meets outside the Marsh farm?

3. As Anna observes the Skrebensky's relationship, what does she wish for herself?

4. Who tries to comfort William when the stress of four children becomes a heavy burden for him?

5. What does William witness that torments him for the rest of his life?

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