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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 feels grown up and hopes Tom will stay away for a while.
(b) She feels alone and thinks Tom will never come back to get her.
(c) She enjoys all the men, smells, and noise around her.
(d) She likes talking to all the men at the market.

2. What does William ask the girl sitting next to him in the Empire ?
(a) If she has a husband
(b) If she goes to college
(c) If she would like to go to the tea shop with him
(d) How old she is

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

4. What would happen to the women of Cossethay if the vicar, Lord William, and Mrs. Hardy were taken away from them?
(a) They would feel less intimidated.
(b) They would feel more at ease in public.
(c) They would be heavy, uninspired, and hateful.
(d) They would feel more successful with their lives.

5. What is Tom's attitude toward his own life while his wife is miserable?
(a) He is moody and miserable too.
(b) He doesn't care that his wife is in misery.
(c) He is always happy.
(d) He keeps the pain at the bottom of his heart and enjoys his life.

6. 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) Amusement
(b) Embarrassment
(c) Sadness
(d) Fear

7. How do Anna and Will react as the men continue singing in the garden?
(a) They become angry, wishing the men would leave.
(b) They go to another room, so they won't hear the singing.
(c) They hold each other close, no longer hearing the voices.
(d) They look out the window and join in the singing.

8. How does Tom finally meet Mrs. Lensky, carrying on a conversation with her?
(a) She meets him at the market.
(b) She meets him at church.
(c) She comes to his farm asking for butter.
(d) She meets him on the road near his house.

9. What does Will ask Mr. and Mrs. Brangwen after he and Anna kiss in the cornfield?
(a) He asks if he can court Anna.
(b) He asks that they tell Anna he is leaving.
(c) He asks if he can work on the farm.
(d) He asks for her hand in marriage.

10. What is the reason Tom Brangwen's wife believes the vicar's children are seen as superior to her own?
(a) Class and virtue
(b) Education and experience
(c) Heritage and money
(d) Wealth and power

11. 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 mother forces him to do the farming.
(c) His father falls off the stack, breaking his neck.
(d) His brother, Alfred, tells his he has to do the farming.

12. Why does the town of Cossethay grow quickly, making the Brangwen's richer?
(a) More people are getting married and having children
(b) The town offers public education
(c) There is a goldrush.
(d) The Midland Railway comes down the valley.

13. Why does William begin to hate Anna as she talks to him about the carvings in the cathedral?
(a) She insults his carving abilities as she looks at the carvings in the church.
(b) She is more passionate about the cathedral than he is.
(c) She tells him he will never be awed as she is with the cathedral.
(d) She is destroying another one of his illusions.

14. How does Tom feel about himself after meeting Alfred's lover, the lady, Mrs. Forbes?
(a) He is content with his way of life.
(b) He regrets taking over the farm and not making more of his life.
(c) He is glad he has the quiet life of a farmer.
(d) He is thankful that he doesn't need to live up to a lady's expectations.

15. 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 obey her father.
(b) She learned to go to her mother for sympathy.
(c) She learned to rely on her sisters.
(d) She learned to harden herself from the outside world.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the description of the relationship between Anna and William in this chapter?

2. How does Tom react when Anna refuses to let Tilly put her in her nightdress?

3. What angers Anna about Will's attitude at church?

4. Why does William suffer behind his bright face?

5. What does Tom see in the loft of the barn that distresses him, making him feel like an old man?

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