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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Anna get along with other children?
(a) She gets along with everyone.
(b) She loves being around other children.
(c) She dominates them, feeling they are inferior.
(d) She sees them as equals and has many friends.

2. 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

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

4. Whose imminent visit from Nottingham excites the 18-year-old Anna?
(a) Her friend, Tilly
(b) Her Uncle Alfred
(c) Her real father
(d) Her cousin Will

5. What does Anna say to Tom that cuts him to the heart?
(a) She tells him that she hates her mother.
(b) She tells him that he is not her father.
(c) She tells him that she is never getting married.
(d) She tells him she is moving away.

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

7. How does Lydia emerge from her indifference, becoming a new person?
(a) She lives through her daughter.
(b) She decides to move back to Poland.
(c) She meets Tom Brangwen in Cossethay.
(d) She falls in love with the vicar.

8. What is Tom's reaction when Mrs. Lensky agrees to marry him?
(a) He nods his head and heads for home.
(b) He picks her up, dancing around the room.
(c) He passes out.
(d) He has to sit down, sealed in oblivion.

9. Where does Tom take Anna as she hysterically cries for her mother?
(a) He takes her in the quiet, warm barn to feed the cows.
(b) He takes her to the kitchen for a glass of water.
(c) He takes her to her bed, demanding that she stop crying.
(d) He takes her to her mother.

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

11. Why is Millicent Skrebensky annoyed with William?
(a) Because he objects to her antics
(b) Because he is irritated with her
(c) Because he raises his voice rudely to her
(d) Because he is uncritical and courteous to her

12. What does Will discover about himself as he kisses Anna in the moonlight?
(a) He wants her desperately.
(b) He does not want Anna.
(c) He doesn't care for Anna.
(d) He loves Anna.

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

14. Why does Anna relinquish her adventurous spirit and wonder of the unknown?
(a) She becomes content with another pregnancy.
(b) Her father tells her to grow up.
(c) She is beaten down by William.
(d) Her mother tells her to be a responsible wife.

15. What is Anna's reaction when Tom carries her into the barn?
(a) She knocks over the cow's food pail.
(b) She screams hysterically.
(c) She kicks and screams.
(d) She becomes quiet and still.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Tom's secret desire for Anna?

2. What gift does Tom give Will and Anna for their wedding?

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

4. How successful is Tom Brangwen at his school studies?

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

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