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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Anna feel about people she meets outside the Marsh farm?
(a) She loves other people.
(b) She is very friendly when meeting other people.
(c) She thinks they belittle her and despises them.
(d) She enjoys conversing with other people.

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

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

5. Who is the person Anna meets that she considers a real person of consequence?
(a) Tilly
(b) Frank
(c) Tom
(d) Baron Skrebensky

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

7. 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 does not want Lydia as much as he used to.
(c) Lydia does not want him ever again.
(d) He wants to be with other women.

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

9. What is Anna's initial reaction to her mother's marriage to Tom?
(a) She is glad her mother has a husband.
(b) She is happy to have a father.
(c) She is angry, wanting to move away.
(d) She accepts Tom immediately.

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

11. What is the deep trouble that is between Anna and William?
(a) Anna complains about money.
(b) William won't let Anna go to church.
(c) Anna mocks William's religious beliefs.
(d) William dislikes Anna's father.

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

13. How does Will react to Anna's preparations for a tea party?
(a) He is excited, helping with the cleaning.
(b) He is angry, retreating into blackness.
(c) He can't wait to see other people.
(d) He is glad to be back in the world.

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

15. What does Tom crave more than ever from his wife?
(a) Love and passion
(b) Her stories about Poland
(c) Obedience
(d) Quiet conversations

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Anna's favorite place to stop on the way to the cattle market?

2. Why does the care of the farm fall upon Tom's shoulders when he is eighteen?

3. How does Will view Anna as they wait to be married?

4. How does Anna view her relationship with her cousin Will?

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

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